What should countries do with their nuclear waste?

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What should countries do with their nuclear waste? - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Put it in a capsule that could survive re-entry into earth just in case, then launch it into the sun.

Do you want evil Superman? Cause that’s how you get evil Superman.

Serious answer: 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)

It also has a decent chance of a rocket failure spreading radiation throughout the upper atmosphere in exactly the way we’ve figured out you shouldn’t do.
Spinlaunch it?
Logical next step, build all the nuclear reactors in space?
The problem with that is getting the energy down to earth. Also what to do with the excess heat, because you don’t have an environment to cool it.