Nope. The costs comes from being absolutely enormous civil project.
Construction workers haven’t gotten meaningfully more efficient while the salaries have risen based on industries with efficiency gains.
It seems like nuclear power has an extremely tiny sweet spot in countries development curve where it is only very expensive.
Right where salaries are still low but the knowhow for advanced technology has started to burgeon. For example India and China. Although China has been cutting back their nuclear program in favor of renewables for a while now.
Construction workers haven’t gotten meaningfully more efficient while the salaries have risen based on industries with efficiency gains.
It seems like nuclear power has an extremely tiny sweet spot in countries development curve where it is only very expensive.
Right where salaries are still low but the knowhow for advanced technology has started to burgeon. For example India and China. Although China has been cutting back their nuclear program in favor of renewables for a while now.