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Originally Posted by HJBeck

Overruns was mainly due to not having a standard design. Each plant became a more or less unique to itself except for the shell we see from the outside. The NRC didn’t help much because they would continuously update/change design requirements so that companies would have to reconstruct much of what they had already built. Always made me wonder if there wasn’t undue influence from the coal, oil, gas lobby to make nuclear economically unattractive.

Good possibility.