Eh we’ll just dump em into the Sun someday if we start running out of space here on earth.
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viking@infosec.pub 9 months agoNot at all, but long term storage of exhausted nuclear rods still costs an unknown amount of money endless centuries into the future. So you can’t really put a number on the final bill.
TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 9 months ago
viking@infosec.pub 9 months ago
That has been suggested for decades, problem is that if any of the transporters blow up on their way to space, you essentially have a dirty bomb covering covering half the planet. No bueno.
realitista@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Some types of reactors can also use those waste products as fuel and in turn make them into other waste products that only last a couple hundred years, so it’s not a easy calculation to make unless you know what’s deployed in the future.