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Is Nuclear Safe? | Aidan Morrison
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April 27, 2025
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9:06Now PlayingNuclear energy is among the safest power sources, with modern reactors designed to prevent disasters like Chernobyl, Fukushima, or Three Mile Island. Strict regulations and advanced technology, including self-regulating systems and robust containment, minimize risks.
Nuclear waste is minimal—a lifetime’s electricity fits in a Coke can. Cooled, stored in secure casks, and often recycled, it’s less hazardous than solar’s persistent toxic waste, which is expected to be 75 times greater by 2050. Australia’s Lucas Heights facility already demonstrates effective waste management.
Aidan Morrison is a leading researcher into Energy Systems and currently the Director of Energy Research at the Centre for Independent Studies. In 2023 he exposed how the famous CSIRO report “GenCost” excluded vast costs required to integrate and firm renewables by treating them as “sunk” costs. In 2024 he was amongst the strongest voices calling for nuclear energy in Australia and was a leading critic of the ‘Integrated System Plan’ (or ISP): Australia’s blue-print for a transition to an energy system dominated by wind and solar. Following the conclusion of a recent Senate Inquiry into Australia’s energy planning and regulation, Aidan reached the conclusion that the ISP is “worse than useless” and declared that trust in Australia energy establishment is now so badly broken that a series of resignations will be required to restore the credibility and respect that regulatory organisations required to administer the energy system.
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