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busymom0today at 3:49 AM3 repliesview on HN

Maybe this is a dumb question but couldn't we ship the waste to another planet (of course once we have rockets capable of doing so but that's not far imo).


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com2kidtoday at 5:16 AM

We can just bury it in a cement casket.

There isn't that much of it once it is solidified and it isn't that dangerous.

georgemcbaytoday at 3:55 AM

We could fly it into the sun, the problem is that until we have a space elevator the only way we have of getting it out of the atmosphere is via rockets and a rocket explosion with a nuclear waste payload would be very bad.

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