[central_va]

Making nuclear fuel is dirty and expensive. Ironically the electricity used to enrich uranium is usually provided by conventional coal/gas plants.

Using the fuel in production is not.

[PreciousLiberty]

“Making nuclear fuel is dirty and expensive.”

Uranium is currently around $45 per pound. Each pound contains roughly the energy of 500 tons of coal.

You do the math.

“Ironically the electricity used to enrich uranium is usually provided by conventional coal/gas plants.”

If common sense were to prevail and we generated more electricity using nuclear power, that wouldn’t be the case, would it?