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Originally Posted by zamler
Nuclear could be viable if we made the plants using new technology but for various reasons progress on the tech is stuck in the past.
When I first heard about this I thought, damn that's awesome why don't we do it. But then I did some math on what it would take to actually populate a 100x100 square mile grid and it's daunting to put it mildly. 100 sq miles is 2,787,839,999.6383 sq ft imagine tiling and area of that size even half of it.
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The bigger reason why it isn't a plausible plan is because you simply can't transport that power across the US as needed.
Power generation has to be specific to the region it is being used. For the most part anyways.