You miss that it cannot be a conspiracy if it is wholly legal. Any public works projects will not be driven by NS, but by whoever is pulling together the budget

You miss that it cannot be a conspiracy if it is wholly legal. Any public works projects will not be driven by NS, but by whoever is pulling together the budget for the project. There is no doubt that NS wants to make a lot of reactors, fast. On any reactor, or any public works, project, there are always people who want to deliver. But they are not commonly in the driver seat. Anyway, even if an NS project did deliver on time and on budget, its power would find no buyers at an honest price it could offer. So, the only way it could succeed is in a captive market. Even neglecting their absurd capex, nuke opex cannot compete against renewables' near zero opex. Nukes' steam turbine maintenance cost alone exceeds renewables' opex. Nukes' indemnity insurance, always 100% subsidized by government, alone exceeds renewables' opex. Nukes' fuel handling expense (mining, refining, packing, storing, disposing) alone exceeds renewables' opex. And, nukes' decommissioning cost alone exceeds renewables' whole capex. Thus, nukes can never compete in a non-captive market. Every nuke ever fielded, anywhere in the world, has relied on subsidy and coercion. Renewables are radically cheaper than anything else nukes have ever faced, and nukes were not honestly competitive even with the old stuff.