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People that think this fail to comprehend how utterly restricted the nuclear industry has been by bad regulation. We are not capturing any of the gains from scale or mass production in nuclear, we are not doing the work beyond the basic science to exploit alternate nuclear chemistries to expand usable fuel sources (there is enough fission energy in just the easily minable thorium to last thousands of years for example) and efficiently recycle partially spent fuel to maximize energy output and minimize actual nuclear waste. Even with the current nonsense in place doing what you describe is doable. Getting the regulators to use more reasonable regulation and doing the engineering to expand fuel capability and hitting 300 petawatt-hours will be very, very easy.