Fine, I'll do your work for you. Finland, Olkiluoto, license application 2000, construction started in 2005, planned operation in 2010, actual operation 2023.

Fine, I'll do your work for you. Finland, Olkiluoto, license application 2000, construction started in 2005, planned operation in 2010, actual operation 2023. France Flammanville 3, construction started in 2007, planned operation in 2012, actual operation 2024, so 17 years Hinkley point UK, construction began 2017 projected commissioning is in 2029/2030. Vogtle USA, permits 2006, construction started 2013, operation 2023/2024. South Korea, shin kori 3 and 4 took 7 and 10 years. And those aren't new designs. Japan, the newest commissioned reactor is from 1997? Sure, France built really fast in the 80s... Different requirements/rules/public opinion. And this is all from the start of construction. The beginning of the project is actually waaaay before that. Please send me some links when you've done your research to prove me wrong. And yes, I did leave out china because I don't see the us building a Chinese design reactor... And even if that was possible it wouldn't meet us standards so you can effectively start over. > If people didn't start such medium-length projects out of fear of hypothetical future bankruptcy, there would never have been any infrastructure projects. And who finances that? Not banks by themselves, governments always have to give out some loan guarantees or favorable treatment. No private investor can deal with that amount of risk. So the bureaucracy that you speak of, without it no nuclear plant would exist. So why don't you point me to a commercial nuclear power plant that was privately funded without loan guarantees by a government and all of that. > We live in a time where business people start space programs out of bloody boredom. So if you're referring to SpaceX, no Musk started that to make life multi planetary. And he understood that no one will finance that so the company needs to first make money to finance that mars shot. Bezos I'm less familiar with but I know he has a collection of space artifacts so I think it's an interest of his and he probably wants to show he can do what musk can.