Yeah, you are right. The part that causes these projects to fail isn't the nuclear part. It's the construction part. You can't just take a construction crew tha

Yeah, you are right. The part that causes these projects to fail isn't the nuclear part. It's the construction part. You can't just take a construction crew that's used to building highways or skyscrapers and expect them to build a nuclear complex properly. This was the exact problem they had in the 70s, the contractors didn't understand why things had to be done a certain way, so they did it the way they thought it should be done. Then it turned out that the problems that many of the safety and operational issues that occurred later were due to not doing it properly in the first place. Nuclear is sexy, construction isn't. There is a great book on the history of the US nuclear power industry that goes into this called Beyond Engineering: How Technology Shapes Society. The technical issues were only a small part of why nuclear power is not more widely used. Countries like France that standardized on reactor design and had enough projects that construction crews could gain experience with the different processes and requirements involved were much more successful in deploying nuclear power.