>really juicy and hard to defend targets IMO the opposite, if anything small modular reactors can be more easily hardened and distributed to reduce vunerabilit

>really juicy and hard to defend targets IMO the opposite, if anything small modular reactors can be more easily hardened and distributed to reduce vunerability. Relative to PRC underground infra abilities, I can see thousands of these buried reactors + with wide spread electrification to make for probably the most securitized energy infra. Large scale peer warfare where adversaries have global strike capabilities means countries can't rely on geographic distance for defense anymore. It will be back to old school geologic depth. Especially with respect to US, where energy autonomy increasingly =/= energy security. Fortress America becomes another Saudi Arabia where essentially extraction infra becomes vunerable/indefensible once advanced rocketry can hit large stationary targets on CONUS. In the meantime, there's already reports of people messing with US energy infra state side with drones and bullets.