Shooting Nuclear Waste to Space? Bad Idea!
<p>Hey there! I love diving into big brain stuff, like whether we can just yeet nuclear waste into space to solve our nuclear trash problems. Sounds like a neat trick, right?but, not so fast. It’s actually loaded with more issues than you’d think.</p>
<p>Alright, so nuclear waste isn’t all created equal. Most of it’s pretty tame, like the gloves and tools from nuclear places that got a bit dirty. They’re no biggie and can be tossed out safely. Then there’s the middle-tier stuff, about 7%, that’s been chilling too close to the action and got all radioactive. We usually deal with it by locking it up in glass or concrete. Manageable, right? But here’s the kicker: the last 3%, the really nasty spent fuel from the reactors. Every year, we’re piling up about 11,000 tonnes of this stuff, and now we’ve got a whopping 420,000 tonnes sitting around. And for now, we’re kinda just storing it and hoping for future us to figure it out.</p>
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