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What is the crucial bottleneck holding back nuclear (fission) power?
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The answer is capital costs. While nuclear power is incredibly efficient once operating, they are tremendously expensive to build. Only part of that is regulation.

For example construction of Voglte 3&4 in Georgia has cost $34 billion and construction on reactor 4 hasn't been completed yet.

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