Despite the danger, nuclear is exactly the kind of thing I want a SpaceX-type company to tackle. Nuclear should be orders of magnitude cheaper. It should be developed at a frenetic pace, with even the scary failure modes being tolerated.
Safety doesn't matter to the degree we think it does when literally thousands of people die in traffic accidents, and hundreds of thousands to preventable diseases.
We don't even need to build near population centers to get this off the ground. We have so much space to build and test safely in complete isolation.
We're in this spot because of the decades of fearmongering from the greens and the geopolitical adversaries masquerading(!) as greens. We also have this deeply-held reverence, and perhaps even guilt, because we built the bomb.
This thinking has held us back so unfathomably much, and for nearly a century. Nuclear could propel us forward as a civilization if we'd just let go of the fear.