It's easy to find detailed retrospectives of the multitude of failures here. I haven't found a single one that said excess regulation was a problem, but I have

It's easy to find detailed retrospectives of the multitude of failures here. I haven't found a single one that said excess regulation was a problem, but I have found a huge number that showed project management, bad design, bad communication between engineers and EPC, etc. were all to blame. Here's one I was reading recently from 2017, about the welding issues. Every other aspect, such as concrete, exhibited similar failures. https://www.enr.com/articles/43325-witness-to-the-origins-of-a-huge-nuclear-construction-flop https://www.enr.com/articles/43325-witness-to-the-origins-of... But if you have an idea of which regulations to change, or how to fix project management, you can pick up a half-completed pair of reactors in South Carolina on the cheap. That boondoggle often gets forgotten when examining Vogtle.