SMR

A one gigawatt power plant is the typical size for a nuclear power plant A one gigawatt nuclear power plant requires 600 acres A one gigawatt solar farm requires 6,000 acres of land A one gigawatt wind farm requires 120,000 acres of land A one gigawatt small modular reactor (SMR) requires 50 acres Small modular reactors are most efficiently built as 100 megawatt units and ten of these would be lined up to produce the one gigawatt. They are built on an assembly line and shipped on semi trucks to the use site. Since they operate without water and under normal pressure they do not need the super structure for safety and can be installed quickly with minimal cost.