We’re just about ready to make our pitch to the TV studios with our comedy show set in a nuclear reactor. It’s got all the ingredients you might expect. It’s got the radioactive leaks ignored for 14 years (or is that too much like The Simpsons?). It’s got janitors guarding the security fences. It’s got nuclear material placed too close to a fan so it’s blown across the plant.

Of course our comedy nuclear reactor will also be built in an earthquake zone and have its own colony of radioactive seagulls that have to be shot by snipers. It’s going to be comedy gold. Imagine Friends crossed with The China Syndrome.

We were considering including security guards who sleep on the job when they should be patrolling the site. We’re not sure. What do you think, is it too clichéd? It’s a very old joke after all. It’s one though, that never goes out of fashion:

Federal regulators are proposing a $65,000 fine against the operator of a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant where security guards routinely napped on the job.

The name of the plant? Peach Bottom. We might use that as well – it’s the perfect example of the cuddly greenwash propaganda that the nuclear industry loves. Yes, the old jokes are still with us. And at 60 years old, not many jokes come much older than the nuclear industry. The show will almost write itself.