It feels like we are either approaching, or have reached, a point where going zero carbon and straight up dumping unprotected nuclear waste in a population center would lead to less suffering and misery than our current trajectory. Obviously that's not necessary or even possible, but that the situation we are in is extremely bleak and fixing it at this point probably requires a level of ice cold motherfuckerness we've never reckoned with.

employing a team of white working class farmer astronauts to run in a hamster wheel

They're engineers and technicians, but I see you're already familiar with the Canadian nuclear power industry. "Hide and seek for a grand a week, or stand in plain view for two"