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Originally posted by NoSoup
As far as nuclear waste is concerned, (I know this might be a child-like theory) why don't we just slap it on a space garbage barge and launch it at the sun? If the "Barge" got anywhere near the sun, I would imagine that it would be incinerated with little to no ill effects, not that I have any real education in the specifics...
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Very expensive proposition. It takes millions, in the multiple 100s of them, just to get to orbit. And if there's an abort part way up, or before you get inside the Earth's orbit, where do you think the pieces are going to land?