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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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[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

Too bad we closed the door on thorium reactors, I bet whoever made that decision is really ~~upset~~ rich right now