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Even though collision-proof caskets will be used which have been crash-tested extensively, transportation of nuclear wastes over US highways and railroads is still opposed by anti-nuclear activists. NUCLEAR FACTS AND FABLES 27 This has forced nuclear plant operators to temporarily store used fuel elements in water-shielding swimming pools until Yucca is operational. If properly prepared, temporary swimming-pool storage of spent fuel elements is safe. But it is still better to store the waste in one place rather than on a hundred different sites.
Large-scale hydrogen fuel production to replace all petrol presently used in transportation fleets, can be achieved by electrolysis or chemical reduction of water H2 O yielding hydrogen H2 and oxygen O2 . The electricity or heat needed for this can be provided by nuclear power plants for more than fifteen hundred years or by coal-fired plants for over a hundred years. H2 gas might be piped through gas pipelines to people’s garages where it can be compressed in high-pressure cylinders to be carried on-board automobiles, or stored in a H2 -adsorbing “bladder”, possibly the vehicle fuel-tank of the future.
Also that a big car needs more energy to be moved than a small car, in proportion to its weight. The laws of energy conservation and energy exchange are the cornerstones of physics. One can define energy on the microscopic as well as macroscopic scale. Microscopic atoms, molecules, electrons, protons, neutrons, nuclei, photons, etc. are all endowed with energy, in addition to mass, charge, etc. Likewise cars and trucks moving over a highway possess kinetic energy, acquired by converting petrolfueled heat of combustion in their engines into mechanical motion of their wheels and thence onto their vehicle.