Apparently construction is not the speed limiting factor slowing down reactor construction. It’s bureaucracy.
That has been true for decades. Also: Why don’t we reprocess “spent” reactor fuel? Because that &^%$(*&%)^ JIMMY CARTER banned it by executive order ... and no president since has had the guts to overturn it.
UNIONS....................
There was a documentary back in the 70’s or 80’s about a nuke plant that had been ‘under construction’ for decades.
A union guy was being interviewed, in silhouette, and he said that they would damage things intentionally so they would have to be replaced, re-inspected, retested and they did this all over the site so that the work never would be completed and their jobs were safe.
However the plant was eventually scrapped due to cost overruns and they were all out of a job................