[Inside the mayor's office. The mayor is talking to the town treasurer.]
Mayor: What precisely do you think we should do? We have only two million dollars in the bank and unemployment is up to 70% of all employable people! What do we do?
Treasurer: I don't know. We need something that brings in a lot of money and creates hundreds of jobs. Maybe an industry that is complicated.
Mayor: Doesn't that need good education facilities?
Treasurer: Hell, no! Only to be safe.
Mayor: I just don't know. It's got to be localised.
Treasurer: Oh, yes, by the way, reports of brownouts are going up drastically and our coal power plant is going to fail in a year or two.
Mayor: Damn! What if we could fix all three at once? It'd have to be a power station.
[The two people stare blankly for a few minutes. Then, at the same time, they both go...]
Both: Hey!
Mayor: We could build a nuclear power plant!
Treasurer: It'll cost $2,000,000. But it's clean, safe and efficient. They're so complicated that it could create several thousand jobs.
Mayor: Good! I mean, look at Denver! They were stuck like this and they did it. It brings in new industry and big tax dollars!
Treasurer: Precisely! It'll liven up our fair city!
Mayor: Good! I'll get a good construction team in and call up the Nuclear Safety people.
Treasurer: What about the new hospital we need?
Mayor: What about it? Just go!
Treasurer: OK. <leaves>
[Scene cut to bus stop pose and the bus pulls up.]
Mrs Crabtree: Get on! We're running late!
Stan: Aw, we're always running late you dirty slag!
Mrs Crabtree: What did you say?
Stan: I said, my dog's tail has lost it's lively wag.
Mrs Crabtree: Really? My dog's got rabies.
Kyle: Yeah and it probably bit you!
Mrs Crabtree: What did you say?
Kyle: I said, I think I'm a member of The Who?
Mrs Crabtree: And my brother was one of the Beatles. Which was he...?
[The boys board the bus and are driven to school. Scene to typical blackboard pose with Mr. Garrison. The title 'Nuclear Power Plants' is on the board.]
Mr Garrison: Now Mr Hat is going to tell us all about the wonders of nuclear power plants.
Kenny: {Oh, my dad never got that job.}
Kyle: Oh.
Mr Hat: ...these monstrous wonders produce thousands of jobs, perfect for people like alcoholic boozers that drink day and night, and...yes, Kenny what is it?
Kenny: {Like my dad?}
Mr Hat: Yes, like your dad. These buildings contain several safety mechanisms and contain tonnes of highly dangerous radioactive material that causes cancer...
Stan: My dad already works at the seismology station.
Kyle: My dad's a lawyer.
Cartman: My mum's just a housewife and she gets cheques in the post every month.
Mr Hat: Unfortunately, several nuclear accidents have occurred, causing increased flying radioactive sheep incidents....
[Scene cut to mayor at a building site. She is standing next to a builder. Both wear hard hats.]
Mayor: So, how much is it?
Builder: $2,100,000.
Mayor: Really? What if you cut corners?
Builder: Too dangerous. Radiation may leak out and kill everybody around.
Mayor: How much?
Builder: Well...$1,200,000 if we cut corners.
Mayor: Cut corners.
Builder: But...
Mayor: Cut THE corners!! I'm fed up of our town being called Margaret Thatcher syndrome town! <walks off>
Builder: <sigh>
[Life continues in South Park for three weeks. The power plant is nearly finished, but the cooling towers still need to be built. Bus stop pose.]
Kenny: {Hey you guys, my dad got a job at the power plant! He works in containment! He helps to watch over a certain part of the core to stop us from getting blown up!}
Kyle: Cool! But I heard the boss is totally nice, except one thing...he'll do anything to save a few cents. Cut wages, lower maintenance, dump waste. That's bad, man.
Stan: I think the plant is getting a big money donation.
Cartman: I hope our Cheesy Poofs don't get contaminated!