4 ms·
The reason storing nuclear waste is expensive is because you don't want people to be able to get to it and you don't want it to escape if something goes wrong (
by el_nahual 6y ago
The reason storing nuclear waste is expensive is because you don't want people to be able to get to it and you don't want it to escape if something goes wrong (ie, a flood).
Strapping it on a bomb to push it to the moon is obviously never going to happen, no matter how many successful launches SpaceX has.
- pfdietz 6y agoThe real reason storing nuclear waste is expensive is... not something that is actually true. Storing nuclear waste isn't expensive. Nuclear waste could magically disappear and it would only have a very minor effect on the economics of nuclear power. Or, a country could splurge and reprocess spent fuel, at a higher cost than just storing it, and also not significantly change the economics (this is what France did.)
- adrianN 6y agoThat seems like a "simple" matter of putting it in some container that survives a rocket crash intact.