JF Mezei wrote:
It is hideously expensive to launch spent radioactive garbage and
have it crash onto the moon (there is no need to land, is there ?)
compared to all the regulatory red tape and long term costs of
maintaining uranium dump site on earth ?

There is a non-trivial group of folks who fight transporting nuclear
waste by either road or rail. It seems rather unlikely they would
find launching it into space any more palatable. Case in point, the
folks who protest any launch involving RTGs.

rick jones
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It is not a question of half full or empty - the glass has a leak.
The real question is "Can it be patched?"
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