If we had any sense we'd be reprocessing nuclear waste so we could get even more power from it. As it is, we're throwing it away when it's only partially exhausted. France has the most complete and advanced nuclear power infrastructure in the world and that's what they do. The US is just afraid that someone will steal the byproducts and do something nasty with them.
France also has a few standard, pre-approved designs for power plants. If you want to build a plant, you find a site, get site approval for the size plant you want, and you build per the standard plan and you're set. In the US every plant is a one-off and it's almost impossible to get plans approved. My cousin worked for Bechtel back in the 70s when they were building a plant here in Michigan. At one time they were 85% done with the plant. When they finally gave up and shelved the project they were about 30% done, because the government kept changing requirements on them, and they had to take extremely expensive building and equipment that they'd bought and built, tear it out and start over on whole chunks of the plant.
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