Reactor designs such as the AP1000 can be and are standardized. > Extreme heat in Arizona, earthquakes in California, flooding in Florida. Earthquakes happen

Reactor designs such as the AP1000 can be and are standardized. > Extreme heat in Arizona, earthquakes in California, flooding in Florida. Earthquakes happen everywhere to varying degrees and flooding typically doesn't happen with some warning. I'm not sure about extreme heat being a large problem? If it is, then don't build there. Build elsewhere and then build powerlines to get the power where it's needed. Sure, different areas involve different threats, but you can make a set of designs that work in different areas instead of doing bespoke designs for every one. > There is no economics of scale when building nuclear plants. There is to a certain degree. Consider the Vogtle 3 & 4 project. It was hugely over budget in costs and time. Westinghouse went bankrupt during its construction. One (of many) reasons for this was the lack of nuclear construction knowledge left in the US because we stopped building reactors. There are other pending nuclear projects that will now benefit from the knowledge and experience that was re-learned from the Vogtle project. Having an active industry most certainly does bring some economies of scale to life.