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		tastyfreeze on Feb 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A bevy of rovers heading for the Moon Throwing all our radioactive waste into space seems like a shortsighted waste of a non-renewable resource. Once humans pull it out of the ground there isn't a natural process on Earth to create more.

jessriedel on Feb 16, 2022 [–]

If it was put in a very high Earth orbit or solar orbit, it could be retrieved in the future, if desired.

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