The head of the Australian energy market operator AEMO, Daniel Westerman, has rejected nuclear power as a way to replace Australia’s ageing coal-fired power stations, arguing that it is too slow and too expensive. In addition, baseload power sources are not competitive in a grid dominated by wind and solar energy anyway.

  • NoiseColor
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    44 months ago

    You can’t really guarantee anything. What we do is play the odds. And the odds are pretty good.

    • @kaffiene
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      04 months ago

      Except you have no emperical basis for judging the accuracy of those odds.

      • NoiseColor
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        44 months ago

        Actually I do. Simply look at injured people because of nuclear power and compare them to injured people because of any alternative.

        • @kaffiene
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          04 months ago

          Irrelevant to storing nuclear waste for 10000 years, which was what I was talking avout

          • NoiseColor
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            14 months ago

            That’s like saying we don’t know if the sun will come up tomorrow, because we can’t see in the future.