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You make it look like coal is the only alternative. Where is this coming from? Trump campaign train?

> Nuclear waste is treated securely enough for now in Europe, and future may bring us scientific development to resolve this problem in future.

No it's not. We have quite big problems with storage in Germany[1]. Other waste is stored next to the nuclear facilities who created it or on the road to and from La Hague where radioactivity is leaking into water and air[2,3].

[1] https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/braunschweig_ha...

[2]http://www.taz.de/!5154538/

[3]https://www.greenpeace.de/node/11699

Or hey, don't forget Sellafield where 2014 the employees have been asked to stay at home but everything is totally OK. Unfortunately nobody told that to the birds who were drinking contaminated water from open SFPs.




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