1. A company gets complete plans to build a nuclear reactor power plant. They don't get complete plans to build a nuclear power plant.
2. The Atomic Energy Commission approves THOSE plans. There is no AEC.
3. The AEC changes it's mind and forces the company to re-engineer and rebuild large parts of the project, often AFTER that portion has already been built even though no defect or problem has been shown to exist. FALSE.
4. Repeat step #3 monthly for the next 20 years and MAYBE you will get your plant online. Whatever. Not proven by experience.
You are being nit picky. I misspoke. It is the NRC I was thinking about. As for NG, it is cheaper to BUILD. However, fuel costs have driven the price of NG generated electricty way up in the last 4 years. I lost my job because of it. Don't try to tell me that the overregualtion of the nuclear industry by the feds didn't it because I KNOW it did.
And yes, I do know that the NRC must approve of ALL plans BEFORE the ground is even broken and then must re-engineer many pieces becuse of new regulations that didn't even exist when the plant was financed.
NO ONE will build one because they know that there is no way to budget for power hungry idiot bureauracrats who justify their pitiful existance by inventing imaginary problems and forcing contractors to tear out hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars worth of work and redo it.
Hell, the Browns Ferry nuke plant has been under construction for over 20 years.