Probably the same reason that SpaceX was able to build human rated orbital rockets with a marginal cost that’s a fraction of what came before. The incumbents a

Probably the same reason that SpaceX was able to build human rated orbital rockets with a marginal cost that’s a fraction of what came before. The incumbents are corrupt, the regulations are overbearing and bloated, the government has no interest in solving the problem. Fortunately, it doesn’t really matter what we think, the Chinese will continue to advance and deploy the nuclear state-of-the-art and become an energy superpower, while the US and Europe debate the issue until we’re made irrelevant.