Man I'm not even interested in the topic anymore. This is just stupid beyond belief.
Fallout used Uranium... but its not the only nuclear material out there... my god. Its not fanfiction to read about what other materials fission and fusion can use. Its an actual real life science.
I even directed you to a potential educational source. The International Atomic Energy Agency isn't a fanfic source.
Please. Just research what you say. No where in Fallout does it mention all the other nuclear elements not exist. And the elements Fusion can use are abundant. Fission can't use them hence why Fusion is such a game changer.
Trying to apply real life sciences while ignoring that the only resource that's mentioned in your infallible Obsidian lore IS uranium this is made as a big issue in Fallout 2 and why bunker hills was rich as fuck because of the high demand.
If there were effective alternatives significantly more common and easy access then the towns including one made of Vault Dwellers wouldn't need to trade.
You're trying to act smart and sassy but the fact is you're arguing for something that breaks the lore more than Bethesda ever has.
Replay Fallout New Vegas and tell me what the options were to which regions to send the power towards.
Pretty much all of New Vegas was its range
Which I don't see why it's necessary to point out, if they couldn't figure out how to fix something that covered the range of a city after months what makes you think they can start creating their own power plants?
95% of Hoover Dam's electricity gets sent to the NCR
Courier:
"I'd like to know more about the NCR."
Dennis Crocker:
"I can provide a quick history lesson, if that's what you're looking for. In 2274, President Kimball sent the NCR army into the Mojave in force, with the objective of occupying and repairing Hoover Dam. Rangers and army scouts had confirmed that the dam was basically unoccupied and could be restored to an operable condition. Upon arriving at the dam, however, they discovered that a large force of tribals and robots had occupied it. This was our introduction to the Three Families, the Securitrons, and, of course, Mr. House. Using his Securitrons as intermediaries, Mr. House called for parlay. He claimed his forces had occupied Hoover Dam in order to safeguard it for our arrival. And that he was ready to turn it over to us, so long as we could agree to terms. Those terms became the Treaty of New Vegas. The Treaty recognized Mr. House's sovereignty over the Strip and granted us rights to establish military bases at the Dam and McCarran Airport. The NCR is legally permitted to send 95% of the electricity produced by the dam to our home states.
Which is 3.8 billion kilowatt hours a year. If the NCR was able to create a nuclear reactor the same standard as US their average reactor would be producing the same amount as Hoover Dam if not MORE.
Yet Hoover Dam is confirmed to provide a significant percentage of the water and electricity the NCR get
Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition p. 458:
"Controversy over the Vegas Frontier
The NCR spread east into Nevada in large numbers just five years ago on a 'humanitarian mission' to 'bring the light of civilization to the savage wastes of the Mojave.' Hoover Dam was the symbol of the expedition-reports from the Followers of the Apocalypse had confirmed that it was still intact as early as 2170-and its occupation by NCR troops in 2274 was a celebrated event. Even more exciting was the restarting of the dam's hydroelectric plant eleven months later, which dramatically improved the access of many NCR citizens to electricity and water.
So it confirms the NCR doesn't have the ability to create Nuclear reactors even after several years or even decades.
A big plant isn't the only solution. As the show proved it was a security flaw. Micro-fusion is preferable.
It's not the only solution and it was never touted as such, it was the immediate solution. Are we going to ignore the same device power as far as the eye can see and took Moldavor less space and resources to create than a nuclear reactor would?
It takes 5,000 construction workers and 6-8 years to build a power plant and that's assuming the NCR had the resources and professionals needed to built it.
In comparison Moldavor needed less than a hundred people to provide power to an entire city. It's not the solution but you treat the macguffin like it's some filthy rag that the glorious Uber mensh NCR should be too disgusted to touch.