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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Why not send it into space? There are several reasons. 1.) It's illegal, at least technically. According to the Outer Space Treaty, no nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction can be placed into orbit. Now, the U.S. and Russia generally turn a blind eye to nuclear material that isn't a weapon, such as the Cassini launch. But I doubt very much that either side will be willing to ignore large amounts of radioactive material being launched. 2.) It's prohibitively expensive. It took the largest rocket the U.S. has, the Saturn V, just to send Apollo to the Moon. What you're asking would require an even larger rocket. I don't think that even the Russian Energya, currently the most powerful rocket design in existance, could boost a significant amount of material towards the sun. 3.) It's dangerous. The Energya, for instance, has a 50% success rate. U.S. rockets are a bit better, but the threat remains. Eliminating nuclear waste by vaporizing it in the sun seems, on the surface, to be the safest and most elegant solution. And someday it might be. But we need to wait for more advanced propulsion technologies. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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