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 11 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 11 months ago
viking@infosec.pub 11 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 11 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.