Regarding #1 -- "educational capacity to train the people needed".
One of the additional benefits to source article's proposal: There's a large, highly trained base of Navy 'nukes' who are in the fleet now or out in the world. Many of the ex-nukes are building and operating non-nuke plants now. These are the folks who spent years (decades) training and operating the same scale of power plants in the proposal (on subs and surface ships).
While university nuke-e programs are light, there's no shortage of folks to build, manage and do the work.
One of the additional benefits to source article's proposal: There's a large, highly trained base of Navy 'nukes' who are in the fleet now or out in the world. Many of the ex-nukes are building and operating non-nuke plants now. These are the folks who spent years (decades) training and operating the same scale of power plants in the proposal (on subs and surface ships).
While university nuke-e programs are light, there's no shortage of folks to build, manage and do the work.
Professor B. is on to something.