They are sealed in impervious containers for shipment just like nuclear warheads.
Both used to pass right through the middle of the town I grew up in pretty regularly by both rail and truck throughout the sixties and seventies.
I grew up in the triangle between Pan-Tex more than fifty nuclear silos, and two nuclear waste repositories, and three Air Force bases and just off of the Melrose/White Sands Missile range.
My father was a nuclear ordnance officer who worked for Von Braun during summers while going to NMMI and MIT, and Los Alamos.
Wrong. Try again! You keep mixing types of waste and materials. But maybe we will keep it simple for you, let me know what kind of payload and cost the logistics of your magical rockets would entail, I will be nice and ignore the cooling systems and containers for your sake. Get working
I said nothing at all about the costs involved. It can be done and it can be done far cheaper today than it could be before thanks to new reusable launch vehicles that knock out about half or more of the cost of getting a payload into orbit.
It isnât particularly difficult at all. You reach earth escape velocity on a track that takes it past Venus and mercury. If you want to save some money aim for one of them.
To get to the sun you have to kill all your orbital velocity, which for us here in Earth is about 30km/sec which is about 3x the delta V just needed to get to orbit.
The sun sucks up matter that is orbiting it literally constantly.
When an object starts to make contact with solar winds and mass there is a tremendous amount of friction generated that kills the orbital momentum as an object gets closer.
You showed a pipe dream that isnât even possible. How many billion acre feet are you gong to have to store and pump every day to replace even one coal or gas fired plant?
Where is the free energy going to come from to pump that water uphill?
Living by that waste did nothing to help your understanding of spent fuel rods, you just conflate and deflect with other waste or ⌠comedically⌠weapons.
And now you tap out on actually transporting it to the destination in a way that makes any sense from a cost standpoint.
Horse hockey. It canât be pumped for free, it canât be stored or maintained for free and the evaporation loss alone makes it untenable during the peak use summer periods in a 1/3 or more of the country.
Who said itâs for free? The energy to pump it uphill comes from over production of wind and solar.
The maintenance is not terribly expensive once the system is installed.
Nothing is for free, mate. Never said anything about it being free. I was replying to someone who wanted to know how we could get away with a world without the typical baseload power generation.
