The engineering side of things caused the delays though, which in turn caused cost overruns. Anyway, in my comment I was referring to the original estimate of

The engineering side of things caused the delays though, which in turn caused cost overruns. Anyway, in my comment I was referring to the original estimate of £22bln, which is higher than the £18bln for that HVDC project and that's disregarding inflation. And it's like that with every nuclear power project in Europe and the US, save for the one in Belarus, though it needs to be said there were some complaints about corner-cutting there - seems to be doing fine for now, knocking on wood.