I appreciate that someone has "done the math" on the soft costs for nuclear plants. One of the arguments against nuclear has always been "but it's so expensive"

I appreciate that someone has "done the math" on the soft costs for nuclear plants. One of the arguments against nuclear has always been "but it's so expensive" and yet the engineering of the plant itself is not particularly expensive relative to similar capacity coal or gas plants[1]. When we were discussing the "Ultra Safe Nuclear" (www.usnc.com) [2] I commented [3] that expense was more soft costs than engineering from my own experience of looking into the cost of nuclear. This paper just does the math and makes it more explicit. [1] Yes, that is multiple plants to create the equivalent amount of capacity. [2] Ultra Safe Nuclear -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24505727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24505727 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24511751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24511751