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And yet the people bitching about the cost will be the first ones to lose their minds when there's a potential safety issue because corners were cut.
Or are we to assume that all these low-cost reactors are safe as houses because being not-anglo makes them inherently better for some reason?
Spain and South Korea build high rail infrastructure for one tenth the cost of the US.
Do you think they are cutting corners in construction?
The cost of construction in the anglosphere doesn't come from "too much safety". It comes from a culture of consultants and managers and legalized graft.
Oh, yes. Spain, the home of "complete lack of corruption".
Give your head a shake. Corruption is everywhere, but in NA they have to pay closer to full cost for skilled trades and have very close eye kept on the results being safe and to spec.