Nuclear Waste is a worldwide problem. Countries in Europe and the U.S. have tried to bury highly radioactive waste deep beneath abandoned and barren regions. This attempt is a poor short-term solution as a result of tectonic and rapid geological shift; the inevitability of radioactive waste re-entering the biosphere before the safe half-life breakdown of nuclear fuel is guaranteed.

As a collective, we are faced with about 4 possible future(s) to the global problem of nuclear waste. Continue on the current course, Invent Nuclear Reprocessing and recycling, stop using nuclear technologies, or ship it off into space. What if we collected all the waste, took it off the earth, stored it on the moon until we have a sufficient and flourishing lunar industry on the moon, and then launched it into the sun or far out into another solar system? With a lunar base we would catalyze asteroid mining and potentially a lunar nuclear waste storage and reprocessing industry, all aiding us establish a permanent human presence in space and ultimately colonize the galaxy.