[nickik]

> nobody can make nuclear plants cost efficiently anymore.

That is simply factually untrue. You can get cost effective nuclear plants from China or South Korea right now.

The core problem with nuclear has always been that if every reactor is a bespoke thing, it will be expensive. Mass production helps with nuclear as with everything else, that has been true whenever we saw a large expansion of nuclear power.

Trying GenIV reactors on a 'small' scale is simply not possible.

> The big problem is that nuclear is essentially a big government project, and America is very bad at those.

Then go to South Korea and order 50 reactors, give them access to US labor and let them build it.

[bjourne]

South Korea is not doing so great either: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613325/how-greed-and-corr...

[nickik]

People always hack around at large industries like this. The reality is that they have carbon-free energy deployed faster then pretty much any other nation and it still kills less people then other forms of power.