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Originally Posted by Augi
The reason why they don't take nuclear waste up is because it costs $10,000 per pound of weight on the shuttle to be taken up. Every pound needs its weight of fuel, and that fuel's fuel, and so forth. The tether would be a solution to that. Then, when the time of day is right, just launch lots of nuclear waste towards the sun, not like it'll be hurt by it.
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Another reason we dont bring nuclear waste into space is that if something were to go wrong with the rocket bringing it into space the waste could be distributed over a huge swath of the planet and could get into the atmosphere.