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[isostatic]

Or would be 100 football fields 1 story high, or about 1/6th the area of a 1GW nuclear plant.

[acidburnNSA → isostatic]

That doesn't sound quite right. Nuclear is very energy dense and has very low footprints in terms of land, fuel, mining, pollution, waste, and everything else except capital cost. I hope we can figure out how to build them cheaper.

Acres per Megawatt Produced for different energy sources [1]:

Coal 12.21 Natural Gas 12.41 Nuclear 12.71 Solar 43.50 Wind 70.64 Hydro 315.22

[1] https://www.strata.org/pdf/2017/footprints-full.pdf

[isostatic → acidburnNSA]

1GW of nuclear power is 1.3 SQ miles (1) or 832 acres.

100 football fields (required area for storage) is 130 acres [2]

130/832 is 1 in 6.4

Bird this is the storage that OP came out with his "100 story high" tale, not the generation (which you'd put off shore, perhaps beyond the horizon)

[1] https://www.nei.org/CorporateSite/media/filefolder/Policy/Pa...

[2] http://www.stack.com/a/how-many-acres-is-a-football-field