There's a bit of misdirection employed in distilling every consideration in building a power plant down into one single dollar per whatever ratio. Other factor

There's a bit of misdirection employed in distilling every consideration in building a power plant down into one single dollar per whatever ratio. Other factors may include volume and risk of waste byproduct, amortization and duration of a particular type of power plant, geographic factors coupled with insurance costs, potential economic factors of switching everything over to a particular technology, number of suppliers in the market, etc. If the entire USA were to switch over or away from a particular technology, that's going to have market effects on all of the other numbers...e.g. dollar figure $X is not static, but rather each dollar figure is dependent upon the others in ways that are not covered in this one paper.