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Even though it certainly isn't renewable, Uranium is not a fossil fuel. That would imply it's made with the remains of dead organisms.
While all power plants have a one time carbon cost to build and decommission, there is a continuous carbon cost to mining nuclear fuel. I think that's what GP was hinting at.
Nuclear fuel lasts so long in modern reactors that it's kinda a silly point though.
What you need to be looking at is lifetime carbon costs per kWh, that's the only real meaningful comparison.
A Single tank lasting long is not necessarily a good thing. It means you have to put in the effort up front. It also does not negate the cost of fuel/W
It's even worse than fossil fuel:
Carbondioxide has its natural circle, if we stop burning fossil fuels nature can remove carbondioxide by itself.
This does not work for uranium or plutonium, and the pathetic tries to get it into a circle have polluted e. g. Sellafield UK and other countrisides.