>>11773022gen II worked but was unsafe (TMI fukushima chernobyl)
gen III is safe and modernized but expensive and challenging to build due to long investment times and hard regulation
gen IV is all about making new designs that will make nuclear powerplants easier to build (most important factor) but also run at higher temperatures (more efficient) and produce less waste (alternative fuel cycles)
Nuclear is based but the current economics and regulation is to poor for companies and politicians to peruse