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why does the world store nuclear waste and not just shoot it into the Sun or deep space?

  • Written by Alice Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
why does the world store nuclear waste and not just shoot it into the Sun or deep space?It would be nice to blast dangerous nuclear waste far away from Earth, or into the Sun where it won't cause any harm. However, it's not as simple as it sounds. NASA, CC BY-SA

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