Oh, but they already are. They are building them all over Ohio and Indiana to sell the power to the Northeast.
We have to look at them and suffer all of the problems with health and property value, so NE'erners can can smugly pretend nuclear power is too dangerous
Oh it is worse. Connecticut used to be the home of Combustion Engineering and their Nuclear Power Division and CT has the Millstone Plants. That division was sold along with that company being sold to others a bazillion times so much so I don't know who owns it now. One Millstone is closed, the other 2 are still up and running, but what are the chances of an American designed and built plant gets built in CT again? Zero Zip Nada....