>The US is an outlier, granted, but mostly for fixable reasons (in particular, over dependence on cars due to poor public transport).

This isn't an obstacle, given electric cars and clean electricity generation. As I said elsewhere, nuclear is the only viable answer. Sadly, it has been demonized, and that needs to be reversed.

ThorCon's efforts in Indonesia will be interesting to watch. I'm not sure I like its current plan of siting the reactors like oil platforms in coastal waters though...

The best approach is underground siting, with no or very little water cooling requirement.