Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On 04/07/2024 17:18, Jethro_uk wrote:

On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:11:54 +0000, Smolley wrote:
 

On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:55:59 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:

More unsubstantiated ignorant assertions. You seem to have adopted
Donald Trump's debating style of inventing your "facts" as you go
along.

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Technology will arrive where the nuclear waste can be transported to the
sun.

Using flying pigs might be an option but rockets are far too unreliable.

 Before that I would look into dropping it into a ****ing big active
volcano. Although I suspect there are probably some good reasons I am
unaware of why it's not done now.

The main one being that volcanoes are spewing stuff *out* with a fair amount of it as fine dust particles. That is exactly what you *don't* want your nasty radioactive waste to be turned into.
If you were crazy enough putting it into a subduction zone well away from any active volcanoes would be a better bet.
There are (expensive) glassification processes that can render it more or less inert for long term storage underground. Snag is the best places to put it geologically in the UK are not the same as the places where it will most likely be dumped (under Sellafield, formerly Winscale formerly Calder Hall - cunningly renamed after each mammoth cockup/MFU).
We in the UK should give thanks to Cockcroft's follies. We were damn lucky that his somewhat wacky stack filter idea prevented massive fallout when the carbon moderator caught fire back in 1957. Radioactive discharge would have been ~20x worse without them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
You have to wait for quite a while (years) after spent fuel comes out of the reactor before it is safe enough to work with. The stuff has to sit in cooling ponds for a while so that the neutron rich fission product isotopes have time to decay to something less radioactive.
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Martin Brown