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It also has a decent chance of a rocket failure spreading radiation throughout the upper atmosphere in exactly the way we've figured out you shouldn't do.
Logical next step, build all the nuclear reactors in space?
The problem with that is getting the energy down to earth. Also what to do with the excess heat, because you don't have an environment to cool it.
Spinlaunch it?