The concentration of energy required to open a wormhole is so great that to chance its use closer than ten AU (about the distance from the Sun to Saturn) from any human habitat is unwise.
This had been discovered by accident when the wormhole generator was new. It was found that if enough energy could be concentrated at a point in space a dangerous disruption of spacetime would occur that would then propagate away at the speed of light destroying any mass in its way including space habitats. Fortunately the effect would dissipate over distance and ten AU was thought to be an adequate quarantine for a normal “jump.”
It would take a 4th generation fusion ship about fourteen days to accelerate/decelerate to that distance . . .
Source:
Sci-pedia - The Online Resource for Science - Wormhole Quarantine Zone
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