Completely agree those costs are insane. The US cranked out the currently functional reactors at a fraction of the cost. We have collectively offshored all know

Completely agree those costs are insane. The US cranked out the currently functional reactors at a fraction of the cost. We have collectively offshored all knowledge and skill on massive building projects and have become weak at dedicating ourselves to tackling complex projects. I don't have a solution to the human problem of building these things, but it is a human problem, not a problem of the technology. I would not be surprised if it is eventually found that oil and gas secretly crippled the building of all modern reactors to keep people dependent. Though incompetence is probably a more likely answer. We have a simple problem. Either we shift our power supply to something that won't kill us or we all start getting used to the idea of living on a hostile planet. I feel that this problem should be taken on as seriously as defending against a hostile nation and pour the resources of the state into a solution. Only when we rebuild our knowledge and skill can we tackle this. I have some hopes in small reactors we could factory build and crank out of an assembly line. But I think the politics of this are still too difficult to even matter. People would rather throw their hands in the air giving up and die in a fire than have the risk of radiation in their neighborhood. Only the kids growing up today watching the world end will probably get their will together to change what is happening. We have failed them