> are you saying that nuclear power related accidents like chernobyl don't happen? The 1975 Banqian Dam failure: 26,000 dead from flooding, 145,000 dead from s

> are you saying that nuclear power related accidents like chernobyl don't happen? The 1975 Banqian Dam failure: 26,000 dead from flooding, 145,000 dead from subsequent famine and epidemics, 11 million homeless: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure See also: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_station_failures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st... Does that mean hydroelectric dams should be shut down? Over the many decades of nuclear operation, there have been two major incidents: Chernobyl and Fukushima. And Chernobyl could probably have been prevented with a containment building. I live with-in 50km of a nuclear power station: I'll take my chances with nuclear over climate change, given the choice.