There isn't the political will to build new nukes. Which politician would want to tie their future to nukes? I mean more than just Sunday speeches: advocate a plant at a given location where the population would have to be made not to oppose it. This campaign would depend on Tepco's ability to suppress the news. Fat chance of that. Every member of any local council would have to bear that in mind: their political career would be ended.

Even if we can conceive of a politician advocating a new nuke near a given village AND being successful at that: the costs. Nukes need a lot of subsidies, they can't be profitable. Who is to (successfully!) argue for these subsidies?

Forget nukes. They are politically dead. As much as I like to give arguments against them (because it is so dead easy and I am by nature lazy), it's not worth it. We are flogging a dead horse.