Nuclear was getting massively cheaper and was scaling well and fast. Then a huge amount of extra regulation came killed all forward progress in the industry, a

Nuclear was getting massively cheaper and was scaling well and fast. Then a huge amount of extra regulation came killed all forward progress in the industry, a new regulator was essentially anti nuclear and the utilities understood that the political wind had massively turned against nuclear. All vital research projects for next generation plants were killed. At the same time cheap coal was discovered and changed the economics and utilities had little intensive to adopt nuclear. In France where a top down nuclear approach was adopted, it has been an absolutely amazing deal. Far, far cheaper green energy then German 30+ year journey adopting renewables (and they aren't close). > embrace the technology that are forcing true change. Nuclear actually made true chance 40 years ago. It just some countries that took advantage of it and some countries that burned a lot of coal that cost them much, much, much more.