Lol. What about the coal panels from china? Sourcing (95% !) the most critical resources from a murderous communist regime doesn't sound that great either.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/energy/china-to-dominate-95-of-solar-panel-supply-chain-83651
You don't need that much fuel either... And once these small reactors are mass produced, swapping them out every 20 or 30 years doesn't sound that bad to me.
Solar exists today.
Keep waiting for those small nuclear reactors.
Considering they arrive some day, and they are affordable, do you really think any homeowner in South America, Africa or Asia would be allowed to have them at home?
No way.
Solar could be used right now in lots of places.
Solar is the most decentralised energy source right now.
No permission needed. Install and use for several decades.
Solar does. Batteries don't. At least not cost-effective ones.
Why go half way when you could do it the right way from the beginning.
Gas plants are built all around the globe right now.
Several decades?
You mean 2 right? With 1 percent performance degradation, each year. Producing electricity when the weather gods don't find it to be too much trouble:
I am not stopping anyone from using solar or wind power. The market should, if there was one. Do you know how many more nuclear plants (existing tech) we could've built for the 5 or so trillion wasted with unreliables in the past decades?
Gas plants are centralised.
Gas extraction is centralised.
Mate, we are talking decentralisation here.
Regarding your magical solar micro grids: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-trumps-solar-in-india/
By real electricity, they (villagers) meant something that's able to power more than a few lights some of the time. 
