Regarding #1 -- "educational capacity to train the people needed".<p>One of the additional benefits to source article's proposal:  There's a large, highly trained base of Navy 'nukes' who are in the fleet now or out in the world.  Many of the ex-nukes are building and operating non-nuke plants now.  These are the folks who spent years (decades) training and operating the same scale of power plants in the proposal (on subs and surface ships).<p>While university nuke-e programs are light, there's no shortage of folks to build, manage and do the work.<p>Professor B. is on to something.