Yes, I agree. But, our greens won’t let us just build it and shut up. We would have to go full communist before they would shut up.
The French pretty much are commies and yet they built out 56 reactors at 18 power stations. Texas has two nukes with two reactors each they are making 6% of the grid right now. Those plants were designed to hold four reactors each. So we should put 2+2 on the existing sites.
Then we should ask the Canadians to come to the Texas Coast halfway between Corpus and Houston. Then have the Koreans send teams of builders to work with the Canadians. The Koreans have built out CANDU 900 for $2800 kw capex in under 60 months. Have them little guys build us a Bruce Power sized complex with 12 CANDU 900s that’s 10.8 gigawatts of 24/7 clean cheap power. CANDU reactors put 1.8 cent per kwh to the plant gate all day everyday for 80 years. Added bonus is being on the coast is use the waste heat from the turbines to run a rapid spray desal plant of epic size. RSD plants only need 50-60C water to run with a 30C ocean as the heat sink. That’s why the location halfway between Corpus and Houston you send fresh water to Houston,Corpus and inland to San Antonio then Austin it’s only 450 feet up hill to Austin or S.A. And under 200 miles as the crow flys. 10gw electric is 30,000mw thermal reject heat the amount of water that evaps is staggering. Texas could cut it’s natgas use for power by 1/3 and forever solve it’s freshwater issues with that one plant alone.