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Why not send nuclear waste into space? I know it's expensive and risky, but we won't leave it for future generations to deal with.


It’s a lot of mass to lift; current rocket fuel (RP-1 is kerosene) produces CO2; and rockets occasionally explode and distribute their contents over a wide area. Also, what, you want to leave a bunch of radioactive waste in orbit? Lifting it out of the earth’s gravity well takes a lot of fuel, and then it’s still in a near-earth solar orbit. No thanks.




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