Well, the 1000+ MW units make sense to a point, and in a large enough grid that if the generator trips off line, the frequency won’t go too far astray (when load increases, it tends to slow down generators, and if a big unit trips off line, the frequency does drop - it’s up to the utility that lost the generation resource to make up the difference). The governors and rotating mass of all the other interconnected generators arrest the frequency drop, but the deficit needs to be attended to, of course.
Anyway, yeah, I live near a 2 unit nuclear plant, about 1150 MW per unit. There’s another of similar size maybe 40 miles up the river, and a third plant with 3 big generators about maybe 80 miles downstream (just an educated guess, not checking the map).
But for an island like Hawaii having an 1100 mw unit trip might prove too much for the grid to handle. There’s no interconnection to other utilities to hold things together. I’m guessing that it’s not practical.
I doubt that Hawaii has any natural gas, but that would be ideal if it were already on the island(s). I suspect that if there were gas, they’d already be using it.
I remember Unanium One - Hillary’s little act of treason. Democrats are good at that (and republicans are too, in some cases). I think SloJoe needs to visit the Grand Canyon. With a canteen (empty).
There are designs for Compact Modular Reactors out there that are self contained units producing less electricity than a big 1000MW reactor. These could easily provide the amount of power needed in a place like Maui.