I agree. You should be the energy czar.
A plant that sized would cost 30.2 billion of the Koreans built it. Over 80 years that’s 31 million per month capex. A plant that sized makes 5.1 million per day in power sales selling at 2 cents per kWh half the current wholesale rate or 10.2 million per day at the current wholesale rate. Three days per month would cover the capex four if you finance it via the state at 5% bond rate. Of course O&M and fuel need to be added in. For a CANDU fuel is 3 tenths of a cent per kWh. O&M varies but is in the 1 cent range. The CANDU reactor is the cheapest O&M and fuel cost in the industry no one beats them and they cannot melt down with a giant water tank around the core that already is at the lowest level in the structure it can not leak away it pools in the same location. Passive boiling and condensation on the containment dome puts the water back to the sink without operator action. That’s assuming the triple back up other cooling systems failed beforehand. The only reason the USA uses PWR reactors is the enrichment plants were subsidized by us payers for the dod nuclear weapons program that’s it. Heavy water reactors are superior in every way to a PWR.