According to what I read, Iowa is almost totally industrialized already by corn varieties owned by Monsanto. And it's flat and boring.
But I wonder if Google could have bought an ARC100 reactor from
http://arcnuclear.com -- if the NRC would get a nuclear engineer who could see how very superior its ancestor, the EBR II of Argonne National Labs's Integral Fast Reactor project is to all other energy alternatives with the possible exception of the thorium alternative, LFTR.
It starts with a 20.7 (metric) tonne core of uranium, perhaps 3 tonnes of it U-235 -- although it could use and thus dispose of Cold War "surplus" plutonium -- and after running at 100 MW round the clock for 20 years, it's ready to be refuelled, but the old core is refurbished by changing 8% of its mass, taking out fission products an putting in un-enriched or even "waste","depleted" uranium. So it has actually used up less than 1.7 tonnes of uranium, and the servicing depot needs to dispose of 1.7 tonnes of quite short-lived radioactive waste. By short lived, I mean that the longest lived, and least radioactive component of the waste is cesium-137, half of which has decayed in 30 years from the date of its creation, and the entire 1.7 tonnes will contain less than 1.7 kilograms of radioactive isotopes after 300 years. So that terrifying waste is about 3 lbs.
