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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by natmaka on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:05AM (#41375849)
Even neglecting debates about the real amount of victims from nuclear accidents, the hydro case is highly debatable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521090
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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by cm2187 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:53AM (#41376074)
Not sure how the cultural revolution has anything to do with the number of people exposed to be killed in case of failure. In any case that's the worst one but not the only one:

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

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by natmaka on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:24AM (#41377655)
Pretty sure that the Cultural Revolution ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution ) induced such a chaos that tackling this dam's problems was much more difficult.

List: the low amount of victims (given the amount of existing dams and electricity produced/stored) and the causes (many acts of war) seem enlightening to me. Moreover this list is laughable: Malpasset, for example, was not a hydroelectric station.

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