Seems like the kind of thing you’d want to be careful about in an area that’s already tectonically active. AFAIK, the knowledge and modeling to be able to predict such things isn’t even close to there yet (as demonstrated by our poor ability to predict earthquakes).
I didn’t even include the initial construction cost in that 30 billion NTD figure. That’s just what it would cost to restart it.
If we only consider the initial construction cost, without all the stoppage, we could have had even more geothermal power plants. In 1988, the budget for NP4 was already at 169.7 trillion, and that’s before we factor in inflation.
Politics, specifically trying to skim kickbacks off of massive projects like NP4, was what halted Taiwan’s geothermal power development.
Controlled release of pressure would probably be the main contributing factor.
It’s a super caldera. Good luck letting off a little steam. I mean seriously, science can solve earth is not a winning strategy here. It’s gonna blow, or it will cool down by itself. Best to rope it off and take pictures and develop evacuation plans.
It would wipe out most of North America and land us in a volcanic winter. I’m all for trying to figure out how to keep it from happening.
Move. Off world. 
I’m all for exploring that too.
One way or another it’s a good 500 year goal to get us off this rock and onto something of our own choosing.
You are being too optimistic about that 500 years to get off this rock estimate. The current delivery system can’t possibly get all the people Wyoming off world, not to mention most people in North America or the world.
Most of those people will already be dead . 
Humans can not live on other plants^^ so sad ;=(
The Van Allen radiation belts contain high levels of radiation that would be harmful to humans. The intense radiation in these belts can damage electronic equipment and pose serious health risks to astronauts, such as increased cancer risk and acute radiation sickness.
Spacecraft traveling through the Van Allen belts need to be specially shielded to protect both the equipment and any crew members on board. For example, the Apollo missions to the Moon passed through the belts quickly to minimize exposure.
Maybe get to work on new equipment.
Maybe inject bleach into the system to disinfect it? 
Starship is the start of ways to get stuff into space cheap, and perhaps this could open some new doors.
But to get humanity to live on some other planet, where everything there wants to kill you? Not happening.
You can have the worst possibility of climate change, the whole world being like a desert like Sahara, and it would still be a garden of eden compared to Mars!
Life can exist on this planet, every other planet just wants to kill whatever’s around.
I would advise, just give it up even considering it. ^^ I feel people kind of hope living on Mars will be possible.
But actually, everything speak against it.^^
Shooting nuclear waste into space might seem like a good idea, but there are several significant reasons why it’s not feasible:
- Cost: Launching anything into space is extremely expensive. [It would cost billions of dollars to send nuclear waste into space, making it an impractical solution]
- Risk of Launch Failure: Rockets are not 100% reliable. [If a rocket carrying nuclear waste were to fail and explode, it could spread radioactive material over a wide area, causing severe environmental and health hazards]
- Space Debris: Adding nuclear waste to space could contribute to the already significant problem of space debris. [This debris can damage satellites and other spacecraft, creating more hazards]
- Orbital Mechanics: Sending waste to a safe distance, like the Sun, requires a tremendous amount of energy and precise calculations. [It’s much more complex and costly than it might seem]
It costs nothing to consider it. I think more about mining the moon and asteroids tho.
Nuclear thermal rocket powered by nuclear wastes. It’s a way to dispose of the waste, as well as shoot them into space.
For some reason lots of Yellow Stone geothermal articles have been popping up.
This really belongs in the geothermal thread, over here:
More on topic, Germany (yes that place full of lazy chabuduo people—not!) is facing a complex reckoning as they attempt to store part, and not all, of the nuclear waste they’ve produced. It’s friggen’ hard with a radioactive time scale none of us can fully image.
Note the discussion of costs for this (not yet complete) back end storage site, which I underline is not adeqately large to store the waste i.e. they will need more sites too:
Germany has a “problem” with the leftovers from nuclear power projects, construction manager Christian Gosberg told reporters. “We cannot leave it for decades or centuries above ground where it is now.”
However, building a storage facility has proved “significantly more complex” than he expected when he joined the project six years ago, Gosberg said.
The expansion of the old mine comes with “special challenges,” he said, adding that much of the machinery used to excavate the tunnels has to be taken apart and reassembled underground.
In some cases, every piece of rebar has to be placed by workers and “individually screwed together,” Gosberg said. “The whole process is extremely complicated and of course takes a lot of time.”
Building delays have pushed the opening back and driven up the cost to about 5.5 billion euros (US$5.9 billion).
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They could have play it smart. Dump it for payment to some third world middle of nowhere friendly countries. Say Kazakhstan or Namibia. Everyone wins.