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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    4 months ago

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

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      4 months ago

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

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        4 months ago

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