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> Keep the material in dry cask storage until the photon emitters have mostly decayed away, at most 600 years. If the US were to generate all its electricity fr
by yawnxyz 4y ago
> Keep the material in dry cask storage until the photon emitters have mostly decayed away, at most 600 years. If the US were to generate all its electricity from nuclear, a 600 year decay time means she would have to devote at most 21 square miles — about the size of Manhattan — to dry cask storage. This is based on the Histore system, Figure 5, which needs one acre to store 580 tons of used fuel.
Does anyone actually believe that our energy needs will never grow over time, and that growth isn't exponential?
- paulryanrogers 4y ago> Does anyone actually believe that our energy needs will never grow over time, and that growth isn't exponential? IME we minimize the negative when considering costs of things we strongly desire. When considering our ability to pay costs in the future we are similarly (overly) optimistic.
- i_am_proteus 4y agoYes. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/ https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/