Yes, it is a state. A unique state. You do hear about Rhode Island in the news, any time there's a mafia arrest, or large-scale world disaster, like a fire out West, which will invariably be mentioned in terms of number of Rhode Islands affected.
Existing types of fossil plants have a capital cost about $1-2 Billion/GW and new nuclear plants are estimated to cost about $2-5 Billion/GW, depending on the laws of the country in which the plant is built.his translates into an average of about $25,000 per Megawatt-hour and $25 Million per Gigawatt-hour. A storage plant that needs to store 26 Gigawatt-hours (just 1 day's power supply) would thus cost about 650 Million dollars to build (estimated range from $260 Million to $1.1 Billion dollars).
Megaprojects - Closely related to the scaling problem, the only way that nuclear ancillary costs are worth paying is if the nuclear facility is at least a GW these days. That means new nuclear plants, when all charges are laid in, cost $8 - $10 billion and take about fifteen years to build when fast tracked. That's a megaproject by anyone's standard, and they are much more prone to massive cost overruns, schedule overruns and quality challenges than normal infrastructure projects.