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Delays and cost overruns are part of the graft economy inextricably connected with the nuke construction business.

Once one of these multi-$billion projects gets started, nobody involved wants them ever finished, because that is when the gravy train stops. So long as people are willing to pony up for overruns, they are happy to provide them.

That is why modular nukes never got legs: there is insufficient scope for graft.

The Finns finally had to finish their thing when it looked like the money would dry up either way. It will be interesting to see whether the French drag out theirs.