I think it takes a metric buttload of energy to get the proper orbit to wipe off the angular momentum such that the projectile can actually head towards the sun. Possible more than the fuel was worth in the first place.
And I'm pulling numbers from my arse here, but I imagine the long term average number of rocket breakups within the atmosphere has to be of the order of 1/100, right? 100 launchings of radioactive waste, and roughly one of those launchings results in release of large quantities of radioactive material into the atmosphere. I don't know what kind of waste container is going to be gauranteed to survive a high termperature rocket explosion.
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Date: 2006-05-22 10:27 pm (UTC)And I'm pulling numbers from my arse here, but I imagine the long term average number of rocket breakups within the atmosphere has to be of the order of 1/100, right? 100 launchings of radioactive waste, and roughly one of those launchings results in release of large quantities of radioactive material into the atmosphere. I don't know what kind of waste container is going to be gauranteed to survive a high termperature rocket explosion.