Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says

• PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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  • kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨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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      • kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, you can.

  It’s been stored in the ground since the earth was formed.

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  • kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not in a highly refined form

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    • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s been stored in the ground since the earth was formed.

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      • kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “not in a highly refined form”

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