The plant in Belarus was arguably made in a very, ahem, friendly regulatory environment(finished in less than 6 years!) and it still was $11bln for a 2GW unit.

The plant in Belarus was arguably made in a very, ahem, friendly regulatory environment(finished in less than 6 years!) and it still was $11bln for a 2GW unit. But the most important thing is the opportunity cost - a typical nuclear power plant takes 7 years to complete. For this reason in terms of GWh delivered in China, wind overtook nuclear in 2012 or so and the gap has been widening ever since.