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.

  • @kaffiene
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    02 months ago

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

    • NoiseColor
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      42 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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        02 months ago

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

        • NoiseColor
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          12 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.