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  • I mean, the way we got rid of our military reactor “waste” for decades was selling it to the French, who refined it for their reactors…

    Real waste that’s an issue is radioactively contaminated steal and the like, we can’t use any of that juice, but we can keep refining fuel forever if we wanted to.

    It’s just a big heavy object, and we need big heavy payloads and an excuse to launch them. So let’s take all that real waste and launch it at the sun for the fuck of it.


  • The space race at large was all a cover for weapons development…

    It was two super powers on either side of the globe competing to show they could hit the other in the dick from that far away.

    Absolutely no one in either government who controlled funding ever gave a fuck about the science for science sake, or even PR.

    Shooting nuclear waste into the sun is a much saner reason that comes with all the bonuses. But obviously it’s for an ideal society after we solve wealth inequality so we can pay for it and actually use the developments for science and not killing each other.


  • That would take more effort and energy than just dealing with it on earth by many orders of magnitude. It’s even harder to launch into the sun than it is to launch it outside the solar system (which is also infeasible of course)

    Yep, it would be a wealth sink that drastically advances science and pays off later.

    Just like going to the moon was an excuse to develop ICBM technology, that also paid off with a shit ton of unexpected scientific advancement.