True, Nukes, though seemingly clean are far from clean. Because of
their concentration of energy not only provide a target but as you know
when a mistake is made, and mistakes are inevitable, the nuke will
contaminate a large area when it does go.

Small co-gens are a much better choice because they can be operated by
private entities such as farmers and local municipalities,
universities, indistries and so on. They are much safer, provide a
better support for the grid, don't become so critical or reliant as a
Nuke.

Nukes have a tremedous amount of politics. It becomes another Cartel
just like the Oil and Auto Cartel. Soon there is more expenditure
supporting the regulatory commission than there is in producing the
power. It grows into a giant fungus like the IRS and SSA , NASA and all
the agencies that take on a life of their own and can no longer can be
controlled. Everyones brother-in-law has a life time position. Jobs are
created to sharpen a pencil.


The answer?
KISS: Keep It Simple and Safe
Keep it where the people can operate and manage their own power for
themselves.
Closing the borders and confronting the population explosion is a far
more worthy task than building a Cartel to supply them with energy.

Make a requirement: to come to this country you will need to BYOB
"Bring Your Own Battery" and water. When they run out, Bye Bye! your
vacation is over. We cannot keep supporting the whole world who refuses
to keep their pants zipped up.

We have no energy crisis, we do have a population crisis.