Contradictions with EV’s

Gdetrailer wrote:

pianotuna wrote:
3 tons,

How many years is the half life?

How many SNR's exist in North America? (none at the moment)

How many SNR's are there in the world (2 in Russia but with only one completed with a cost over run of 100%)

How small is an SNR (about 2 football fields).

Where is the permanent storage facility in the world? (none at the moment)

What was the cost on the last 2 nuclear reactors in North America (2016) 27 billion dollars.

How much solar could be installed for 27 billion--with RETAIL pricing being as low as $0.26 cents per watt?

And you like the nuclear option? Go buy a Prevost!

NRC NUCLEAR WASTE FACTS

"During the fission process, two things happen to the uranium in the fuel. First, uranium atoms split, creating energy that is used to produce electricity. The fission creates radioactive isotopes of lighter elements such as cesium-137 and strontium-90. These isotopes, called "fission products," account for most of the heat and penetrating radiation in high-level waste. Second, some uranium atoms capture neutrons produced during fission. These atoms form heavier elements such as plutonium. These heavier-than-uranium, or "transuranic," elements do not produce nearly the amount of heat or penetrating radiation that fission products do, but they take much longer to decay. Transuranic wastes, sometimes called TRU, account for most of the radioactive hazard remaining in high-level waste after 1,000 years.

Radioactive isotopes eventually decay, or disintegrate, to harmless materials. Some isotopes decay in hours or even minutes, but others decay very slowly. Strontium-90 and cesium-137 have half-lives of about 30 years (half the radioactivity will decay in 30 years). Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years.

There is no commercial reprocessing of nuclear power fuel in the United States at present; almost all existing commercial high-level waste is unreprocessed spent fuel.
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Basically, every bit of spent fuel rods are simply stored in cooling pools until they are cool enough to put into specialized flasks designed for cold storage.

Then those flasks are simply disposed of by burying them deep in a high security mountain facility for permanent storage..

Not exactly safe, clean or earth friendly?

The Idaho National Labs in ID developed a process to recycle and reuse spent Nuclear fuel and make it a much much cleaner process - the government shut the program down when Clinton was president...

In addition, I know of 2 places in the US where spent nuclear waste is buried, 1 is near the Columbia River in WA, the the other is at the INL in Idaho - which is near Yellowstone and on top of the fresh water aquifer that feeds the Snake River...

But, please, trust our government to do the right thing.

I'm not sure if this is come up on this thread. Most of the Lithium used in EV's comes from Communist China. I'm sure that won't cause any problems in the future, either politically, or just thinking of shipping containers of Lithium traveling thousands of miles over the ocean.