You make two good points, one is that nuclear plants don’t have to be mega plants, they can be smaller for a more distributed network. Mega plants have their advantages, the economies of scale, but more smaller plants have an advantage in that a high-line down or a plant down isn’t the disaster it is when you have all your eggs in a very few baskets.
And that once we go to electric cars, that will even out some of our peak load issues, since people would be charging their cars during otherwise off-peak times.
Small nukes for desalinization of ocean water, with the nukes mounted in the ocean. Using existing nuke submarine technology would make great sense but we are still waiting for our stupid a**ed politicians to even suggest this. We could also produce small amounts of electricity with these submarine nukes.