Interesting. It seems that the US are being left behind in this...

Interesting. It seems that the US are being left behind in this technology. This is apparently a bottleneck in the manufacturing of plants.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/inform...tors/heavy-manufacturing-of-power-plants.aspx

The very heavy forging capacity in operation today is in
Japan (Japan Steel Works),
China (China First Heavy Industries,
China Erzhong, SEC),
France (Le Creusot),  
and Russia (OMZ Izhora).

New capacity is being built by JSW and JCFC in Japan, Shanghai Electric Group (SEC) and subsidiaries in China, and in South Korea (Doosan), Czech Rep (Pilsen) and Russia (OMZ Izhora and ZiO-Podolsk).
New capacity is planned in UK (Sheffield Forgemasters) and India (Larsen & Toubro, Bharat Heavy Electricals, Bharat Forge Ltd). In China the Harbin Boiler Co. and SEC subsidiary SENPE are increasing capacity.
Nothing in North America currently approaches these enterprises.* The changed position of the USA is remarkable. In the 1940s it manufactured over 2700 Liberty ships, each 10,800 tonne DWT – possibly pioneering modular construction at that scale (average construction time was 42 days in the shipyard). In the 1970s it had a substantial heavy infrastructure, but today China, Japan, South Korea, India, Europe and Russia are all well ahead of it. Steelmaker ArcelorMittal, based in Luxembourg, now owns the US company which built most US reactor pressure vessels in the 1970s-1980s.

But if Trump decides to get behind the nuclear industry, you dont think he is going to want the US to miss out on the economic benefits of the manufacturing process. If the US get behind the industry in the same way that they eventually got behind alternatives to oil in cars, then we may see an explosion in investment in the Nuclear industry.