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Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says (reneweconomy.com.au)

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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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[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (10 children)

It's all very well claiming that nuclear waste storage is safe but you can't guarantee anything can be kept safe for 10000 years. Humans haven't managed that for anything, ever.

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 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.

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