(1) Designing yet another fuel-wasting LWR hardly counts as innovation when proven and tested fast-neutron reactor designs can burn all the fuel and even transmute the hot leftovers.

(2) How much did the first Model T off Ford's assembly line cost? Auntie Nukes love to point to their success in making nukes "too expensive" by forcing absurd regulations on them. See https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/the-two-lies-that-killed-nuclear