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.

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    2 months ago

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

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      2 months ago

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

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        2 months ago

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

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          2 months ago

          well we’ve been storing nuclear waste for decades so we can extrapolate

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