Real estate tax is literally a tax you pay to the authority that “comes to your house and starts taxing you on how much the value of your home has increased”.
Oh and polluting rivers being the only factor in this matter is not strawman? Changing entire country’s energy infrastructure takes decades, let alone absorbing that economically. Especially when you’re a newly formed country that at the same time needs to change every other aspect of itself to move from socialist to capitalist economy, society and infrastructure serving them.
Given the circumstances, I’d call 19 years a great success in this case.
I guess you must have a secret plan none of us are aware of on how to transition the entire country off nuclear power and diversify its energy sources overnight.