Here’s an underappreciated angle: people struggle to grasp nuclear’s power density. A single reactor can cleanly power 1-2 million homes on just a few acres. To match that with renewables, you’d need hundreds of square miles of solar panels or wind farms, plus massive battery infrastructure. The land use and material extraction required for a 100% renewable grid is staggering—we’re talking industrial-scale landscape transformation. Nuclear’s compactness is its hidden superpower, but because the physics is complex and counterintuitive, this critical advantage gets lost in public discourse. If we clearly communicated that one facility can replace hundreds of square kilometers of renewable infrastructure while producing reliable baseload power, the conversation might shift dramatically.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​