Nuclear proponents always point to the Banqiao Dam disaster, and it's always a misleading argument because that dam was built to control downstream flooding as

Nuclear proponents always point to the Banqiao Dam disaster, and it's always a misleading argument because that dam was built to control downstream flooding as well as provide power and its failure was probably attributable to how the flood control aspect was mismanaged - by holding back too much water for too long out of fear of downstream flooding, they ended up overfilling the reservoir. If China hadn't bothered with hydroelectric power, the dam would still have to have been built and all those people would still have died when it failed, you just wouldn't be able to use their deaths to make nuclear power look better. (Also, nuclear power didn't exist back when that dam was put into operation, and given the quality of engineering that went into it that's probably a good thing.)