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It is common for people to try to ascertain the total cost of nuclear power. Those doing so typically are trying to show how expensive nuclear truly is.
It is uncommon for people to do the same thing with fossil fuels.
Basically, we don't know the true overall cost of burning fossil fuels. These costs certainly include health costs, environmental costs, and might also include climate-change costs.
We don't figure the cost of health problems from breathing SO2, or breathing ozone from the NO2 that's created by burning.
In the end--once we either decide to stop using fossil
fuels or run out--we had better have something like
fusion working ...
... or we may have to go to exotic things like space-based
solar collection satellites which will run to really big bucks.