I agree, and politically it means little too. The Republican governor will appoint a Trump-approved sycophant to serve the remainer of Graham cracker’s term to January 2027. Graham’s election is now dead in the water so republicans will scramble for another Trump sycophant to replace him and be voted into office without issue.

I endorse nuclear power and am enjoying the second look it is getting now but as a geologist I ask where the nuclear waste will go. No one ever wants to talk about it and there is really easy solution, the deep subsurface (miles below the ground). It’s safe, cheap, and Finland has shown how it’s done.

This is part of a broader issue in preparing our next generations for jobs of the future. To build out this infrastructure you need smart technical people to make it work and ask the tough questions, but I know this administration doesn’t care about that.