Also, nuclear fuel is not renewable. There is a finite amount.
Imagine future generations hearing about the idiots who wanted to throw the barely used uranium into the sun.
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Or you just let it be elliptical for a while and that shit will burn up before very long.
You don't need to hit the center of the sun to be incinerated by it.
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In case you want to watch it from the beginning, took out the time stamp
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thanks for the written article as I don't like videos for information (great for entertainment purposes and that includes the occasional edutainment but I have to be in the mood for it). The written article im a bit unsure of though. It sounds like its talking about a direct crash into the sun. technically you would be looking at just making an orbit that would degrade and not hit anything else along the way. So that it would eventually crash into the sun. That being said I don't think we should treat the sun as a garbage disposal and all the dangers about launch are way valid.
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Haha, as soon as they said "pluto only needs 4.8km/s [dV]" I was like "great, let's sun-dive our waste from pluto, then"... Like, glossing over the whole "getting the waste to pluto" part.
Which they then went on to discuss.
It just makes sense if you think about it. It also takes some 50%+ more velocity to go to the sun from Mercury than from Earth, due to Mercury orbiting sun at the speed of 47km/s
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