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> 2) If it's too expensive it will not happen, no need for the government to step in.

The government steps in for every second of operation of every nuclear reactor on the planet.

Feel free to pay for your own insurance sans liability caps, find your own loans (without government enforced payment from end users for projects that produce no power), pay for the overruns in decomissioning, and pay for the labour of the regulatory bodies stopping the industry from rendering entire countries uninhabitable.

While you are at it you can control the pollution from uranium mine to the same standard that you'd want in your own back yard and pay for security.

Electricity is a utility and a natural monopoly. The government is always involved and they need to make decisions for what is best in the long term. If you don't have your own enrichment and processing industry then that decision isn't 'become dependent on russia for fuel'. We just saw how well that went.