> It has nothing to do with economics, nuclear energy is stagnant because the industry is a regulatory hell.

Except that San Onofre just shut down because we couldn't engineer the water tubes in the system properly in the face of being irradiated.

The real problem is that we have poured orders of magnitude more subsidy at fossil fuels than we have at fission or fusion.

If it weren't for the fact that it can ride the semiconductors R&D gravy train, solar would be in the same bad shape as nuclear.