Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in...
by noahhs on Friday October 03, 2014 @10:42AM
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Aside from safety, there's another insurmountable obstacle to space disposal: cost. You may not appreciate just how much spent fuel there is. I did the math once. Launch cost per pound, times number of pounds of waste, came out to over $1 trillion. Orders of magnitude away from feasibility, even with advancements in launch technology.
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