Uhm...
Without explanation, I might as well say you are not a man (even if I have met you in person) and my comment would be equally valid.
As for:
That might actually be where you are both a bit ignorant:
Companies are starting up and working in Canada, even Toshiba, to work on MSR, ISMR and other small format reactors for heating up oil sands. India is working on Thorium reactors. These novel new reactors are not even being allowed to be built as a test device until the NRC receives hundreds of millions of dollars, and at least 10 years, just for permit to start testing. After that time and money, the NRC might just say no because the NRC is only focused on, and only works with and approves large size LWR. Even our own ORL, which I am less than a mile from as of this typing, is working with China because the US regulatory system mucks them up.
These companies could raise funds that were reasonable, and a couple have.
They just know to not to this work in the USA. Because the USA
is saying
no to new nuclear development.
Same could be said about newborn stem cell work.
Same could be said about a lot. We (The US Gov) spent $79B on climate change between 1989 and 2009.
http://joannenova.com.au/2009/07/mas...nding-exposed/
Why not some other stuff?
Some of these are items that can produce gobsmacking amounts of carbon neutral power, in one design they can use just our waste nuclear fuel and power the world, like the Transatomic design.
http://www.industrytap.com/nuclear-w...r-72-years/417
But they can't do it here, in the US.
So they are looking to do it in Canada and China and India.