there's a difference - you can buy one person who probably has a strong network she can go to with an open chequebook and put a team on the ground within months and get a very solid result
getting a working nuclear energy system is a vastly vastly vastly different kettle of fish
you are in an area where you need an open chequebook for what would be 10's of thousands of scientists, engineers and workers - that other places are chasing with open chequebooks -
and skills that require years in developing
the difference is so stark timing wise and scale wise that I thought even someone like you who has so many frail moments would stop to consider before thinking it the same