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

    Nobody died at Fukushima and it was an outdated designed reactor that needed to be retrofitted.

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      4 months ago

      You stated that all nuclear a accidents were the fault of lax standards. I gave you a counter example.