Nuclear energy is clean

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by addicted on Sunday July 31, 2022 @09:41PM (#32300891)

For a busted dam to destroy a city, the city necessarily would have been built on land that was literally underwater until before the dam.

This isn’t common, to say the least.

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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by BurningFrog on Sunday July 31, 2022 @10:20PM (#32301196)

This presumes the gigantic water mass in the dam would stay within the downstream river banks when released.

Water is not that polite...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_d...

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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by hansihe on Monday August 01, 2022 @04:20AM (#32303375)

This is not true.

Rivers are often dammed to create an artificial body of water that can be used for power generation. You are storing water from the river when it has a high flow rate, in order to be able to generate power when needed.

There is nothing that requires the area downstream from the dam to have been previously underwater.

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