Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k years

Re:Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k ... by arcticbull on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:46PM (#30105370)

There's a few major issues with disposing of nuclear waste into the sun. First and foremost is that if the rocket explodes you'll contaminate a huge radius with dirty bomb like material. Probably not great.

Further, if you do decide to launch it, it takes significantly more energy to shoot it out of the solar system than towards the sun. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/09/20/this...

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Re:Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k ... by whoisburbansky on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:45PM (#30108079)

Did you mean to word that the other way around? It takes less energy to shoot it out of the solar system than towards the sun.

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Re:Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k ... by arcticbull on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:53PM (#30108187)

Ooof, good catch. Thank you, yes, that's what I intended to say. Too late to edit.

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