The Biggest Barrier to Nuclear Energy is Mental
When you dig for root causes, sometimes you find that many different problems have a common root. The biggest barrier to wide-scale adoption of nuclear power is fear. People have old, scary information loaded into their brains, that gets reinforced by others who are misinformed or have malintent.
If we can stop people from being scared, we can get a lot more capacity in place without having to spend a fortune and waste more time talking about imaginary issues, things that are no longer or never were problems.