The article hints at the core driver of costs: time Decrease time-to-completion, and you decrease a whole host of costs. And the regulations driving that time

The article hints at the core driver of costs: time Decrease time-to-completion, and you decrease a whole host of costs. And the regulations driving that time explosion are within Congress's ability to modify. (1) Grandfather any currently builing plan into regulations as of the year of project initiation, regardless of how they change after the fact (2) Waive environmental impact studies for nuclear (or other no-carbon) plants. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good The real problem is that nuclear has no constituency. Environmentalists hate it because they can't do math and aren't pragmatic (let's be honest); wealthy folks hate it because they don't care how much power costs and NIMBY. So who exists to fight for it? The only political hope I see in the US would be a single-issue group comprised of practical environmentalists + industrialists. The former should like it because it saves the planet. The latter should like it because it allows decarbonization without inflating energy costs.