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115 tonnes of Li-6 is what you get by sifting through the lithium required for ~200k electric cars. Tesla alone could provide material for nine such reactors a
by Tade0 3y ago
115 tonnes of Li-6 is what you get by sifting through the lithium required for ~200k electric cars.
Tesla alone could provide material for nine such reactors annually.
- pfdietz 3y agoSure, the input feed is not the problem. The problem is actually separating it. The technology used for the H-bombs is no longer acceptable due to mercury pollution. World Li isotope separation capacity currently is in kilograms per year (to produce pure Li-7 for pH control in fission reactors.) And then there's the beryllium. A single one of those ARC reactors would use something like 40% of the current world annual beryllium production.