I think they make nuke plants too big and powerful and dangerous.
Make them smaller, encapsulated, no chance of out-of-control fission, and sacrifice some efficiency for safety.
You could make one small enough to bury in a small box, strong enough to power a city.
After 20 years you dig it up and replenish the nuke material.
There are some people who have already built such systems.
The government has already approved such a reactor ~ doesn’t quite do a whole city but it would easily handle my neighborhood.
IIRC, there was a city in the Northwest that was powered by the plant on a Nuke submarine, during a blackout. Smaller nuke plants are a great solution, but that will happen only after folks get over their hysteria about nuke plants.