While I don't disagree, the idea that we need "advanced" (ie not the stuff we have right now) is nonsense.
We have been building perfectly good nuclear reactors for fifty years. We don't need more research dollars, or more time, or more advanced materials. Those are all 'nice to have' luxuries that we can take advantage of once we are out of the hole we are currently digging.
We need to just build lots of reactors. Just like the French did back in the 1980s. It was not only possible, but fairly easy, forty years ago, for a middling ranked developed economy.
