On: NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor

[legulere]

Uranium mining, milling, conversion, enrichment and fuel fabrication are all not free.

Because of protection from radioactive radiation, you have higher costs handling anything in a nuclear reactor compared to a coal plant. Then you have the issue of runaway nuclear reactions, hydrogen buildup etc.

[idontwantthis → legulere]

See reply above. That's my point.

By "free" I mean that you need so little fuel over the lifetime of the reactor the cost is negligible compared to all the other extensive costs of building and managing the plant.