Doesn't work if the government changes hands every 4 years and comes with radical different ideas and starts reversing stuff from the previous government.
Totally different to China, with their 20 year plans, where they're committed to developing nuclear, are putting superior resources into it and are building at scale.
Every country with nuclear had a period where they went ahead and build a bunch.
Building one or two in isolation is just a gamble
The nuclear industry has no one but itself to blame for its failures and bankruptcies.
Keystone XL pipeline halted after Biden blocks permit https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57422456
One presidency would approve it, the next one would disprove it
OR climate change will make a water pond dry, so you cannot even start the reactor.
OR terrorists will capture a reactor and mine it.
OR massive change in water weight due to climate change will create a massive earthquake.
If your mental model of the world sees Russia as a normal functional country instead of a terrorist state capable, willing and engaged in unrestricted warfare against civilians, then of course you'll find yourself in situations where you "don't understand" what's going on.
The operation is disinformation. They know that the world news will report "both sides blame the other" and that's all they need.
Russia has clearly demonstrated over the last year that their soldiers are disposable.
I ask because I want nuclear to succeed, but see no path for what you say is possible. And I don't know a single person in the industry, or who is familiar with the failures, that sees the route to producing nuclear as cheaply as, say, China.