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Yeah, in theory. But nuclear NIMBYism might prove too strong for even that. It will be interesting (scary) to see how this game of chicken plays out. Will fear of nuclear prevail for much longer over fear of climate change?

I'm not sure there's a place far away enough, while still relatively free from regular natural disasters (and human disasters, like war). It's not like high-voltage transmissions lines are very lossy, so if putting plants far away was enough to assuage the nuclear fears, we'd probably have them already.

The main problem with putting nuclear reactors far enough away from everyone is that they need to be cooled, which means a water supply. There aren't that many places that have plenty of water for cooling, but no people. And most of the places that do fit that description already have a nuclear power station.

We already do this, just with corn instead of MOFs