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I support nuclear too, but the fact is - nuclear is a political hot potato and encumbered by enormous financial uncertainty.

If you wanted to spend $1B on energy, spending it on nuclear would be a crapshoot, while spending it on solar or solar + batteries would lead to implementation relatively quickly.

It's unfortunate given this table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Tables_of_energ...

You have it backwards. We need to patch in fast-to-build renewable and imperfect storage capacity while continuing to research nuclear fusion. Fission plants however are both uneconomical and slow to build - to the point that even the fastest builds of already safety reviewed designs would not complete until after our fate in climate change is largely irreversibly decided.

"Nuclear power; the world's most expensive way to boil water".

Luckily, there are many cheaper power alternatives that don't involve the problem of having to bury nuclear waste for THOUSANDS of years.