TSR: Nuclear waste in space?

Published: Aug 22, 2005
Source: www.thespacereview.com



Reducing launch costs is a major problem. Nuclear waste is also a major problem. Jonathan Coopersmith describes a technical solution that could offer cheap space access as well as a means of safely disposing of nuclear waste.

When I fly from Texas to Europe, I pay $3–6 a pound, depending on how well I do buying a ticket. When a satellite or shuttle is launched into space, the customer (or taxpayer) pays over $10,000 a pound. That is the major challenge of space flight: until the cost of going into space drastically decreases, the large-scale exploration and exploitation of space will not occur.

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