It's about independence from any monopoly. Energy companies own the field, equipment, transportation, electricity generation, and distribution. I'd like my own generator and storage to lower costs.
Nuclear perpetuates the same system where safety is cut as a cost saving measure. You know they would be less safe if they legally could. Also the infrastructure is in bad shape to move radioactive waste by rail- ask Ohio.
That's a plot device in The Day After Tomorrow movie. So the idiocracy won't accept it because it was in a movie about climate change.
I can already hear the "nice try, liberal but..."