Grist has published an article that gives a good overview of the historic, as well as the current, "failure to launch" of the U.S. nuclear power industry. As the article concludes, from a record number of degraded old reactor shutdowns in 2013, to a large number of cancelled new reactor proposals, cancelled power uprates at new reactors, and large-scale cost overruns and schedule delays at the 4 proposed new reactors that have broken ground (at huge financial risk and expense to ratepayers, and perhaps also taxpayers), "U.S. nuclear power’s days are numbered."