@collectifission has anything changed or is every traditional nuclear deployment still a massive burden on the taxpayers?

The famous study on France, which was basically the best case scenario, shows that it never gets cheaper, only more expensive.

I think the SMRs could become viable but we have to actually start deploying them. Though the economics of the SMRs is pretty awful too.

This is basically why solar/wind + battery is winning around the world. At least the economics of those are in line with reality.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421510003526