People like the idea of nuclear, but none of these pro-nuclear advocates can make it cost-effective in practice. Look at South Carolina, what a debacle and the costs are being thrown onto rate-payers. New-build nuclear is just not working economically in the USA, we'd need a big change in policy, permitting, and willingness of the populace.

In many ways, China's nuclear demonstrates the advantages of its authoritarian system; it can get some things done far better than democracies, willingness/permitting/policy being such non-concerns for their governmental system.