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Originally Posted by Xaccers
The spent fuel can be recycled, and any remaining waste can be launched into the sun, or to the moon. It will seriously reduce the greenhouse affect.
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How much energy does it take to launch a pound of payload out of the Earth's gravitational well? (And, more to the point, it also currently costs around $10,000 for each pound.)
How much pollution will that rocket cause?
And what happens if the lauch goes wrong? Bang! Oops, a nice radioactive shower for someone's country...!
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Of course as soon as we can we should move to fusion reactors and shut down the fission reactors.
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Do you have any idea how difficult it is to decommission a fission reactor? And are you going to lauch all that material into space too?