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.
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.
Going to the moon adapted ICBM technology, but it wasn’t intended to further ICBM development. It was simply the last chance for America to save face having been roundly spanked at every step of the space race with the USSR.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spinlaunch it?
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.
Going to the moon adapted ICBM technology, but it wasn’t intended to further ICBM development. It was simply the last chance for America to save face having been roundly spanked at every step of the space race with the USSR.
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.
The risk from launching nuclear waste in the sun is so much worse than the risk of burying it
We have so little high level nuclear waste it’s actually crazy to think about
Like all of the dry casks we made in the history of commercial nuclear power could fit on a single football field
Dig big hole bury waste, no step 3
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.