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		wukerplank on April 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear w... The problem with nuclear waste is that you need a 0% failure rate or you might detonate a dirty bomb in the atmosphere. It doesn't matter how often it worked if it fails once. Also it's a great target for sabotage for radicals.

lmm on April 14, 2015 [–]

> you might detonate a dirty bomb in the atmosphere

Which would put less radioactive material up there than coal power plants already do as a matter of course.

wongarsu on April 14, 2015 | [–]

But it's a bit hard to say at which altitude the failure would occur. Plenty of rockets have exploded on the launch pad.

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