So, the energy cartel suffers if every local community uses modern technology to build small, safe and cheap nuclear generators. Surprise. I believe they are simply making uranium pellets with layers of ceramics and other materials to permanently make them immune to meltdown, then making steam with them. It is possible to use these all along the coastlines to fill all hydroelectric generators and the reservoirs, which then can be expanded when everyone is sending clean water inland and collecting the power in the form of hydroelectric as it comes back. Desalination, cheap energy, cheap water, full reservoirs... and you can end most fossil fuel usage. Oil would start to be only for plastics and engine fuels. This is the type of work modern civilization should be engaging in. Instead, it's rampant graft and agit prop. Truly clean energy and water, for dirt cheap, is what they are stealing from you; a life of leisure and paradise on Earth.