> Nuclear as it exists today is not cost competitive. But that's mostly an artificial problem caused by regulation. Is it regulation or a lack of scale? The US

> Nuclear as it exists today is not cost competitive. But that's mostly an artificial problem caused by regulation. Is it regulation or a lack of scale? The US has launched 2 reactors in the last 2.5 decades. I'm guessing there was a lot of stuff - materials, processes, documentation, etc - developed from scratch specifically for those plants. It might get cheaper if we can start re-using that stuff.