The problem if nuclear power is that technology progress has slowed to almost 0 and we are still operating with 60s technology. In the 60s we built many, many

The problem if nuclear power is that technology progress has slowed to almost 0 and we are still operating with 60s technology. In the 60s we built many, many test reactors and it was clear that nuclear power had huge potential to revolutionize the world. This is still true, the energy density inherent in nuclear power can transform lots of industries. But unfortunately the regulatory structure built around nuclear material and nuclear deployment is almost impossible to manage. This is partly simply to do with how restrictive the access to the material itself. Forms of regulation that make it almost impossible to do any kind of iterations, you can't even do a small scale test reactor in a practical way. Look at how SpaceX is building Starship. That's how you get revolutionary technology. Not by sitting around for 10-15 years to maybe one day directly building a full scale reactor (that you then have to scale). A fundamental shift in how to think about the potential of nuclear needs to be done. The regulatory structures have to be fundamentally redesigned in pretty much every aspect. The DoE has admitted some of the issues but trying to rationalise the regulation but its like relocating an asteroid. Good regulation will not suddenly make 60s technology competitive today, we need to rethink the process from innovation to operation in a new way.