Japan ready to export nuclear power technology

When I read a number of months back that the bidding for nuclear plants to be built in the UAE was won by South Korea, I really shook my head and wondered what in the name of all that's good had happened to our industry. (Yes, I do know, but I still wondered how we got here.)

As of now, it looks like Japan is going to actively get in on this recent rush to go nuclear everywhere. According to this article, they'll be setting up a deal funded by their government to export the technology. It's kind of like the old AEC Power Demonstration Reactor Program in that there's both federal and private funding, but the important point is that it's being exported. (We kind of tried that with BONUS-1 in Puerto Rico, didn't we?) It sure looks like THEY have their stuff in one sock, and are ready to get to work. What are we doing except sitting on our hands?