Forget what exactly I was watching but it was an interview with a career Nasa scientist and his work on climate change. It was the Clinton administration that put the kibosh on federal funding furthering nuclear research into the most modern reactors. Keeping in mind Fukushima being the most recent accidental nuclear crisis that reactor was actually quite old and this guy was talking about how the modern reactors that were being designed were basically incapable of meltdown....until the federal government pulled funding for their development.

I'm assuming it is impossible/ illegal to work on a nuclear reactors if you aren't the federal government these days.