Lee would you like to have another got at giving a straight answer?

How long do you think we would have to store the radioactive waste with a half life of 24,000 years? And how much do you think it would cost?

Forever and free doesn't exactly lend you any credibility.

freediver wrote on Mar 17^th, 2024 at 4:45pm:


Well I see you have at last got a straight question.

freediver wrote on Mar 17^th, 2024 at 4:45pm:


"The spent fuel of a nuclear reactor contains plutonium-239, which has a half-life of 24,000 years. If 1 barrel containing 10kg of plutonium-239 is sealed, how many years must pass until only 10g

of plutonium-239 is left?
Show Solution

239,179 years"  But that's 10g it doesn't show the level of radiation.

freediver wrote on Mar 17^th, 2024 at 4:45pm:


Seeing as you haven't come up with anything different, the credibility problem is yours.

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 17^th, 2024 at 4:57pm:


As I said not current.   And hydrogen gas is explosive in a wide range of mixtures, should you have any leaks. And hydrogen because of its small molecular size is highly likely to leak.

AEMO generates  200 terawatt hours of electricity to the east coat.

https://www.aemc.gov.au/energy-system/electricity/electricity-system/NEM

The AEMO said that renewable output reached 40% in the December quarter.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/fossil-fuels-fall-to-record-low-in-p...

So renewables would generate 80 terawatt hours if that covered the full year

Snowy 2.0 would store 175 hours of power

“But the maximum additional pumped hydro capacity Snowy 2.0 can create, in theory, is less than half this. The reasons are technical, and you can read more here.
It comes down to a) the amount of time and electricity required to replenish the dam at the top of the system, and b) the fact that for Snowy 2.0 to operate at full capacity, dams used by the existing hydro project will have to be emptied. This will result in “lost” water and by extension, lost electricity production.”


https://theconversation.com/nsw-has-approved-snowy-2-0-here-are-six-reasons-why-...

So less than 175 hours then.

And yet we are expected to believe renewables can power industrial nations like Australia.

Plus batteries they tell us are merely to smooth the output of the renewables.

freediver wrote on Mar 17^th, 2024 at 6:16pm:


And yet your opposition doesn't extend to what you query.

BTW - The level of PU298 uses a linear no threshold base for atomic workers, and the risk of infection in uncut or diseased skin is reckoned low.

"In air, alphas travel only 3 to 5 cen-
timeters and in living tissue only about
30 micrometers (which is equal to 3 to
5 cell diameters) before they expend
their energy and come to rest. The lat-
ter distance is less than the thinnest part
of the epidermis (the dead layer of
external skin cells). It is also less than
the thickness of a standard piece of
paper (about 100 micrometers). Fortu-
nately, therefore, the penetration power
of alpha particles is limited. A mere
sheet of paper or the outer layers of our
skin will block their passage—see
Figure 1(b). "


https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00818013.pdf

freediver wrote on Mar 17^th, 2024 at 6:16pm:


You are the one who says it is expensive. You tell us.