Then we could be on a course toward
a sensible national energy policy, with profits not going to the profiteers who have brought us to the brink of disaster, but to research and implementation of alternative, renewable fuels and energy efficiency.
The temptation for developing countries to go nuclear is particularly common when the political regime is not democratic, as happened previously in South Africa, Brazil and Argentina and as is currently happening in Iran, where
national prestige can overrule rational economic decisions and
sensible energy policies.