They are currently in the circuit cleaning phase where they are flushing are piping to make sure everything is clean . Cold functional testing is expected next year . The major fuckup was to choose the cheapest option in the contract bidding in the first place , but the government and municipalities do it all the time , and nobody is any wiser . The major fuck up here is they ' re trying to build a classic reactor design with all safety system scaled up to meet higher safety standards . This results in the single most complicated engineering project ever attempted . All of this without the skilled builders that built the plants in the 70 s and 80 s . Other reactor designs take a new route with passive safety resulting in far less equipment . Not to mention the actual design of the reactor wasn ' t finished when they started building it .