I remember reading that nuclear costs about the same as fossil fuel + carbon capture, and, at current prices, much less than renewables + enough storage to make them continuous. This to me is the fair comparison. Further, I'd rather live near a nuclear plant than a coal plant sitting on tons of compressed CO2, ready to pop and asphyxiate everyone in the vicinity.

I agree storage is a problem, maybe not as big as it is generally made out, but even then, would I rather struggle with nuclear waste, or millions of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere? The latter will lead to a planetary-scale disaster, the former at worst to minor regional ones.