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Please accept my apologies for misreading you then, Brutha!
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It doesn't interact with anything down there, so I'm not worried that a interacting disturbs a complex system with will create problems.
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No, we
think it doesn't interact with anything down there. Again, we won't know if we were right until after the fact.
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Some of the waste from nuclear plants will retain harmful levels of radioactivity for tens of thousands to millions of years.
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How can we ever be sure that nothing bad will happen in those millions of years? It's not like we can turn the radiation off if it doesn't work out...
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According to wikipedia that is not how geo thermal works.
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Yeah, well, wikipedia isn't always right
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I still don't think that you should take "waste"-products from complex systems away that you don't understand when those complex systems can do massive damage from time to time.
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The big difference would be that we could
stop taking those waste products at anytime. Hopefully before irreversible damage is done. Nuclear waste doesn't have a kill switch like that. Once it's been created, you are stuck with it - for millions of years!
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Most big disasters where not really predicted beforehand.
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Nope. If we could do that, we wouldn't have those big disasters (or, at least, wouldn't be affect much by them). But we can't.
All we can do is make a guess to the best of our knowledge as to which way leads to the least harm for ourselves and the environment.
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At the moment it seems that we don't go off fossil fuel fast enough and do even worse.
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That, unfortunately, is not a problem of technology (it's ready to go), but politics.
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can make a difference, though. As a European, you're free to choose which energy company "delivers" your electricity - choose one that uses renewable sources to do so.