Forget about the highly questionable technology for the proposed 1,650 megawatt nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district from the French power major Areva, or even the objections of the Finnish environmental watchdog body STUK for the Olkiluoto plant, which is being replicated at Jaitapur. The fact is that nothing can prevent time overruns and, therefore, cost escalation. To date, no nuclear power project has been implemented on schedule. The last US nuclear plant, the Watts Bar-1 reactor, took 24 years for completion, 17 years behind schedule. Even China, with the ability to implement projects before schedule, had a two-year time overrun before commercial production commenced at its latest nuclear plant in 2007. That was too an Areva reactor. Gaps in quality of implementation were detected in the welds of the steel liner of it. Article continues below the advertisement... About the experience of infamous cost and time lags in the Indian nuclear power industry, the less said the better. And it is well-known that although India began atomic energy planning synergistically with France, nuclear power production has a share of 3% of total electricity generation. The Jaitapur technology - a European pressurised reactor (EPR)