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Getting nuclear waste off the surface is extremely risky & challenging. Rockets occasionally explode and scatter their payload. Even a 0.01% (1 out of 10,000) failure rate might be considered too high a risk. I think that a lot of people would not take the risk that 1 out of every 10,000 rockets with nuclear waste will explode and scatter the contents into the upper atmosphere.



Especially high level radioactive waste which is some of the only stuff you might care enough about to worry about a "permanent" solution. The existing nuclear payloads are either RTGs or occasionally fresh fuel that is only lightly radioactive compared to high level waste.




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