So on one hand, the regulatory framework is ridiculously anti-innovation, and changing it is hard, and it's bad bad bad. https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/waiti

So on one hand, the regulatory framework is ridiculously anti-innovation, and changing it is hard, and it's bad bad bad. https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/waiting-on-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission-eight-months-after-receiving-proposed-advanced-reactor-licensing-rule-commission-has-not-acted https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/waiting-on-the-nuclear-regu... but, the big cost overruns and the whole cost disease is because of atrocious change management, lack of standardization and, in general, bad project management. https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30458-X https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30458-X ( https://news.mit.edu/2020/reasons-nuclear-overruns-1118 https://news.mit.edu/2020/reasons-nuclear-overruns-1118 )