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Germany - The search for a final repository for nuclear waste may be delayed by decades (aussiedlerbote.de)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Accidents happen and considering the amount of waste there would be have to be quite a few launches.

I'm not sure if there is a good list out there, but just some examples from memory: just last month space x failed to deliver satellites in the right orbit and I think one of the other incidents at the end relates to this one that actually exploded.

The second one ofc is a bit older, but still what is an acceptable risk to take when handling radioactive material? And the recent one also wouldn't be fun.

I would also imagine that handling the waste on the ground would make everything much more difficult until the launch.