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Pedeville 1 point ago +2 / -1

Why not just put all the waste into rockets and fire them into the sun? Will just get evaporated

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Racerspuff 2 points ago +2 / -0

Or just drop it into the Mariana Trench, very low energy expenditure, very solid disposal. But it might kill some super rare creature.

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TheWiseBuffalo 2 points ago +2 / -0

Waste of energy and resources :/

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Libertysheimdall1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Because rockets have a rather ... troubling safety record?

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StaffordH 1 point ago +1 / -0

Also, it takes a lot of thrust to head towards the sun.

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BillionsAndBillions 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well, fusion has no byproducts to dispose of, and we're officially speaking "really close" to having compact fusion reactors already.

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pseudosapient 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well, fusion has no byproducts to dispose of,

Fusion has a silly-high neutron flux, unfortunately. Aneutronic fusion... good luck with that.

Fission - decent fission cycles, not the silly strawman that people like to bring up ("once-through" and the like) - actually has less byproducts than fusion. It's the 'chop one twig off of a tree and burn it then call the rest waste'-style approaches that are terrible.