> That price is at least 5x solar+wind+storage.
Do you have a source? This seems.. unlikely to be true.
As for your point on graft, you seem to have a very black/white view of government. I find, in general, that black/white views are usually wrong quite often, since very few things are black/white. While I'm sure we can point to many examples of big public works projects that were debacles, certainly there are many examples which have turned out quite well. An immediate assumption that any large public works project will turn out badly is, I think, naive.
We have many decades of experience with, specifically, nukes. If any were not debacles, we would be hearing about them. (They have, though, enriched certain people.)
I do indeed have a black/white view on graft: I am against it. Your argument in its favor, and for nukes on the back of that, is not persuasive.
As for your point on graft, you seem to have a very black/white view of government. I find, in general, that black/white views are usually wrong quite often, since very few things are black/white. While I'm sure we can point to many examples of big public works projects that were debacles, certainly there are many examples which have turned out quite well. An immediate assumption that any large public works project will turn out badly is, I think, naive.