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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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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

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

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 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.