"We’re looking at a fleet of SMRs. We have no interest in building a few and walking away"

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Hawaii is not too large.

Granted, remote Alaskan towns are generally small, but there are 'large' remote locations as well. Maui and the Big Island could each absorb one of these reactors. (290mw each)

Fuel costs don't compare on a year to year scale, but when you're done burning a barrel of oil, and everything is past the scrubbers, it's gone. No more cost.

Nuclear fuel has very long term costs to store.

Then there's emergency planning and contingencies. Placing reactors on volcanoes would present interesting safety mitigation.