For the distribution of energy, yes, I agree.
For the logistics.... bad idea. If for nothing else, imagine now both new and spent fuel traveling in smaller batches all over the place, no longer centralized. Absolute control of that fuel becomes a nightmare. Far more chances for accidents, contamination and theft. Costs will skyrocket.
The new fuel now comes from several different vendors to the many commercial, college, government/testing, and military reactors. Nothing centralized.
The spent fuel, thanks in huge part to Mr. Reid, and now Mr. Obama, is
still being stored in pools and casks at those many reactor sites, or on an enormous reesrvation in Idaho. Nothing centralized about any of it.
The transfer casks for the spent fuel (new fuel needs no tight control, you can walk up to it and hold it in your hands safely) are so safe as to be idiotic to worry about. Your car has a far greater chance of blowing up and causing severe problems than these casks do.
Meanwhile, if we reconstituted the fuel (thank you Mr. Carter for making that impossible in the US), we'd generate only <10% of the high level waste we generate now.
An MIT study done decades ago suggested the best thing in the world for the nuclear industry would be many, many, many cookie cutter local generating stations that are all alike instead of Palo Verde sized behemouths (or even Calvert Cliffs sized). They suggested it would greatly reduce the cost of building, operating, maintaining, training...... The one and only problem with doing this, of course, is the public is entirely ignorant of the safety culture within the industry, and instead sees bad movies that grossly distort the industry.
It's a sad state of affairs for the US, honestly.
