Speaking of "in your backyard", I lived next to (well, within literally just a few hundred meters) and walked by one every day for several years at university. Admittedly, it's
a very small reactor with only 1MW output built for research and training purposes, but nonetheless it behaves like any other light water reactor. It's never been a secret, yet I never once heard a peep of controversy from even the most outspoken conspiracy theorists when I was over there.