Couldn't you say something very similar about space?
> In the US and other western countries it is mostly by commercial companies
> this requires decades long planning and commercial companies are unable to work unless they get quick results.
and yet that didn't stop SpaceX from leapfrogging entire nation-states in rocket technology, being the first to develop fully reusable rockets that land themselves, and as a result, are by far the cheapest option for launching things like commercial satellites.
I don't see why commercial companies can't accomplish similar things in the nuclear power space.
Well, SpaceX did all that mostly on government money, as NASA was by far the largest buyer of SpaceX rocket launches, and directly invested hundreds of millions of dollars on top of that (and are still doing so).
> In the US and other western countries it is mostly by commercial companies
> this requires decades long planning and commercial companies are unable to work unless they get quick results.
and yet that didn't stop SpaceX from leapfrogging entire nation-states in rocket technology, being the first to develop fully reusable rockets that land themselves, and as a result, are by far the cheapest option for launching things like commercial satellites.
I don't see why commercial companies can't accomplish similar things in the nuclear power space.