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Re:Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Overcome Existing Barriers... by kazagistar on Monday May 23, 2016 @08:50AM (#11753506)
Bring it up does not change the fact that there is now radioactive material on an orbit which still potential overlaps the earth. Out of the solar system is a much better solution.
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Re:Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Overcome Existing Barriers... by Symmetry on Monday May 23, 2016 @10:31AM (#11754061)
On the other hand it's not like the Sun isn't spewing out way more radioactive material continuously than we're talking about adding here.

EDIT: To give some orders of magnitude, the back of the envelope tells me that the sun inflicts about 700 TBq of carbon-14 on us every year. For comparison, countries like the USSR and UK have dumped 85,000 TBq of radioactive waste into the ocean (and Fukushima added another 15,000). I don't know how to judge how much of the vaporized waste would end up back on Earth so it's quite possible I'm wrong in the above.

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