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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I've never understood why we couldn't couple a nuclear waste disposal program with the space program. Bury that shit somewhere on Mars or the moon or jettison it to the sun or something and justify some of the space exploration costs.
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If enviros are worried that a secured train travelling over cleared tracks in a casing that's been tested to withstand explosions, drops, and submersion in water, do you think it's possible they'd accede to launching a rocket filled with the stuff into the atmosphere? Even I'm a bit worried about the possibility a rocket would explode, spreading atomized spent fuel througout the upper atmosphere.
That said, if you could get it into space easily, sending it into the sun is a solution to our worries.
