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Re:Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution:... by VintageCool on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:40PM (#35519228)
The overwhelming majority of deaths from dam failures in living memory were the result of one disaster in China in 1975 which was suppressed by the communist government. It wasn't until 20 years later that Westerners started to learn about it.
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Re:Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution:... by shakow on Monday April 10, 2023 @09:23PM (#35519512)
Sure, there is this one outlier, but there are quite a few >100s deaths incidents in the West too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure
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Re:Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution:... by natmaka on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:12AM (#35521110)
Most of them were not hydro-electric dams, which are statistically more recent and in practice way more effectively monitored (people are permanently occupying most of the not-tiny-ones).
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