Ex-IEA official: Nuclear power can't compete with solar power

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201807240045.html

Nuclear power is "ridiculously expensive" compared with solar power and cannot compete from a financial standpoint, said the former head of the International Energy Agency.

During a lecture at a symposium in Tokyo on July 23, Nobuo Tanaka, former IEA executive director, said nuclear power is utterly "uncompetitive" with solar power generation in terms of costs for building or expanding nuclear plants.

“I was greatly shocked to hear that the IEA say that ‘solar becomes the cheapest source of electricity generation in many countries’ in its 2017 report,” said Tanaka, a well-known nuclear power advocate.

He has served as an executive board member of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Inc., which comprises nuclear plant manufacturers.

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