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The main difficulty is the expense of dealing with the waste products, not in the production of steam to drive a generator. This is mainly due to the waste being a 10,000 year problem.

Too many of the tanks at Hanford have become corroded and leaked, they “caught” the runoff but it eventually gets into the groundwater, so, the Columbia River has nuclear pollutants downstream of Hanford from these leaky tanks and a bedrock that’s more porous than expected over just 60 years. Using glass entombment is promising but the bugs haven’t been worked out yet, best so far however, but not cheap. Yucca Flats has been a candidate, but if you live near it, it’s a boondoggle for big companies and more land you can’t visit.

I’d recommend putting 1,000 square feet of solar panels on your roof, that’s about 15Kw per hour full sun, most houses use 30-75 Kw-hours a day and the rest spins the dial to pay the bills. This costs about $40,000us for 25-year, 60-knot wind load panels installed and pays off in a couple of weeks here in Phoenix (not really, but only a couple of years, for Seattle it was about 7 years to pay for itself).

This is for urban housing on the grid, if you need batteries that adds more cost but also way more maintenance, needed for rural areas and then worth it.

With millions of homes now small generation stations, the grid can handle the daily surge without adding capacity to the lines, if there’s a brownout or blackout, the solar homes and businesses have their basic needs met. If a terrorist wants to blow a few towers and cause a blackout it’s less effective as a strategy with millions of solar homes and businesses around.

However, this takes a huge big chunk ‘o cash out of the power companies’ pockets and into yours so requires legislation for two-way metering and the rules of who pays what when to who so it can work, many states now support this.

Nothing wrong with nuclear power, it’s just a dicey way to make steam, and that’s all it’s doing is producing superheated steam (~800-degF), I thought you could do that by painting the Los Angeles Aquaduct black, it goes through a couple hundred miles of desert, shouldn’t be a problem to power LA, then condense the water to use at the end (only it probably wouldn’t get enough pressure to drive turbines but it’s a fun thought).

No coal, no oil, no uranium, just sunlight … panels are around 15-watts/sq.ft. now, not bad at all if you can find some ’cause the rest of the world is buying them like pancakes, especially Asia and Europe.