My impression is that one of the biggest obstacles to building new plants is regulatory. If you’re not building a design that’s already been used and approved (and really, no one is going to build a design from the 70s, the last decades when new ones were started), it’s apparently a difficult and long process to get permitted, which equals $$$. It kinda makes sense, given the possible consequences, but I do wish they would get on with it. I don’t really see a green future without a lot of nuke power.
Could be wrong, opinion formed from vague memory of reading articles.
