The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World

Full report here:

http://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/The-Future-...

Bottom line is, as Forbes rather clickbaitily puts it [1], the main reason nuclear reactors can cost twice as much in the United States and Europe than in Asia is not regulation (or rather, not only regulation), but rather dumb stupid preventable factors like project/construction management failures, inexperienced subcontractors, starting construction before the design is complete, and so on --or so the study claims.

If so, then making nuclear cost-effective may be a stone's throw away, after all...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/10/01/3-reason...