But some key resources, including skilled engineers, mean there is likely to be competition between countries if there is a worldwide surge in reactor construction.

BBC: Ministers plot UK nuclear future

In 1981 it bombed Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor, and in 2007 it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor under construction.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear proliferation

New licensing rules will approve reactor designs for construction anywhere, rather than requiring approval for each individual plant.

ECONOMIST: Energy

It has its hands in every part of the nuclear industry, from uranium mining to enrichment to fuel fabrication to reactor design and construction to maintenance and refueling to reprocessing and recycling.

FORBES: Areva Chief Talks Power

This time, say reactor vendors and big engineering and construction firms hoping to do the building, things will be different.

FORBES: Energy & Genius

Approval of a license could take three to four years, and construction of a new reactor could occupy an equal amount of time.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Conceptually, I think this is a cool idea, allowing for both flexible power construction and a very safe reactor design.

FORBES: TVA Signs Deal for Modular Nuclear Reactors

Reactor plans, orders and even in-progress construction evaporated.

FORBES: Yellowcake Fever

Finland and France, which produces more of its electricity in nuclear plants than any other big country, each have under construction a plant of the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) design developed by AREVA, a French industrial group.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear power