We tax payers have paid for power generation for eon's yet availability goes down and prices come up. One think to look at near/at our military bases is the nuclear ships the enter port. Insteand of turning off the reactors, leave them on and power the local cities.
One carrier in San Diego could almost power the entire city and since we have paid for the construction of this mobil nuclear plant, we can use it at home.
The best thing about building many smaller nuke plants in areas all around the country is reducing the problem of transmission of the electricity. We saw summer before last what can happen when transmission is disrupted. If the electricity doesn't have to travel so far from production to use point, it will be less expensive all around.