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by kazagistar 3685 days ago
Bring it up does not change the fact that there is now radioactive material on an orbit which still potential overlaps the earth. Out of the solar system is a much better solution.
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On the other hand it's not like the Sun isn't spewing out way more radioactive material continuously than we're talking about adding here.

EDIT: To give some orders of magnitude, the back of the envelope tells me that the sun inflicts about 700 TBq of carbon-14 on us every year. For comparison, countries like the USSR and UK have dumped 85,000 TBq of radioactive waste into the ocean (and Fukushima added another 15,000). I don't know how to judge how much of the vaporized waste would end up back on Earth so it's quite possible I'm wrong in the above.