That's a remarkably naive of history view. It's that way because the USA views nuclear as risk for proliferation of nuclear weapons and has very questionable fo

That's a remarkably naive of history view. It's that way because the USA views nuclear as risk for proliferation of nuclear weapons and has very questionable foreign policy pushing regulation to follow local bad policy. Everything from the international atomic energy agency, many binding agreement from the u.s. department of state, etc. Pretty much none of the policy anywhere else has developed without the USA's heavy hand pushing bad policy ideas. America has bad ideas and pushes them onto most of the rest of the world stifling innovation in nuclear almost everywhere as part of the design of the policy, not due to any lack of merit in nuclear energy. Nuclear is where space travel was under the shuttle program. It needs someone willing to throw several billion at it to develop the technology to cut costs to a fraction of a percent of the current design but the regulation pushed by the USA on this is even worse than it was on space travel by a large margin so it's not happening.