Fifty years ago, at the dawn of nuclear power, Wall Street was in the grip of a uranium-mining fever, with stocks and even mutual funds cropping up to take investors' money.

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With the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the rise of Nirvana, nuclear anxiety gave way to more unchanneled angst accompanied by fewer synthesizers.

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John Rowe, chief executive officer of nuclear firm Exelon, saw the writing on the wall about government penalties and rewards for producers of greenhouse gases.

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Wall Street, health insurance and drug companies, fossil fuel and nuclear power companies, and defense corporations have been hard at work defeating common-sense reforms that would make them more accountable.

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The rest of it - the five watchtowers, concrete perimeter wall, 57 concrete 'kiosks' (which stored the nuclear warheads) and other testing and maintenance buildings - have deteriorated and the 'scheduled monument' has now been put on the at-risk register by English Heritage.

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There are investment professionals with multiple Ivy League degrees, people who wrote PhD theses on nuclear fusion or fractal patterns in nature, who have been lured to Wall Street to estimate whether or not a knock off version of Scrabble called Words with Friends will grow to 65 or 65.2 million users by September.

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