Nuclear Power, Centralized Power

Once upon a time people gathered their own fuel. This might be wood and bushes from the nearby forest, or deposits of peat or coal, but the necessary material for making fire was never far away.
By Tudor times in England there was a serious shortage of firewood, and coal began to be mined extensively and commercially.
Perhaps, more than anything, it was this development, the use of coal, and the commercialization of fuel, that was the key moment in England's path towards the Industrial Revolution. For it was King Coal and the existence of a commercial society with independent and engaged producers that sparked the mechanical discoveries that created the modern world.
Fuel production was taken out of the immediate sphere of the individual and the family and the village. From now on fuel needed to be bought.
As time went by, coal mines were less and less profitable, and the miners themselves wanted more money. Miners, being the ones who produced the fuel, also gained a power to paralyse the country with their strikes.
It was unacceptable to Authority that groups of working men should share in their power.
The State will never accept alternative centres of power. Be it trade union power, local power, ecclesiastical power, individual power, it is only tolerated on sufferance till the day it can be destroyed. Destruction of independent life is the aim of the State. The hierarchical imperative requires conquest, demands destruction.
The history of the twentieth century is the history of the destruction of working class power, and the history of fuel in England is no exception to this.
Oil was a godsend to the Hierarchs. After the labour troubles of the Edwardian era, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill, changed the Royal Navy from coal power to oil.
In the Sixties coal began to be replaced by North Sea Gas in homes.
The production of fuel was kept ever further from the grasp of ordinary people.
At the same time Nuclear Power was introduced.
Nuclear Power is the ultimate totalitarian power. It is so dangerous that it can only be organized by a permanent, unchangeable bureaucracy, and a merciless army.
With Nuclear Power, civil unrest and war become unthinkable. The centralization of power in all its meanings becomes imperative.    
The hoovering up of power into one vast desert nuclear state can only have one result.