Since the in situ construction seems to take ages and has made everyone extremely skeptical of the economics side of nuclear power (compared to 20 years ago), s

Since the in situ construction seems to take ages and has made everyone extremely skeptical of the economics side of nuclear power (compared to 20 years ago), small modular reactors could be a better avenue. There the whole reactor vessel can be built in a factory and transported to the plant site as a whole. Improvements to the design and operational procedures etc could also be made faster if a lot more were made and operated. At least over here, the problem is that the extremely long winded permit process (the parliament has to vote) has to be passed for each reactor core. This drives up the core size. But laws can be changed, one could instead have a thermal megawatt limit per permit etc.