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Looks like similar risks are much greater with renewable power: Russia threatening to explode Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power plant could cause greater dam
by sampo 4y ago
Looks like similar risks are much greater with renewable power: Russia threatening to explode Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power plant could cause greater damage, than blowing up a nuclear power plant.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63341251 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63341251
Also historically, the largest dam accident in history has an estimated 20 000 to 200 000 death toll. This one data point is (almost) never included in comparisons of safety and death tolls of different energy sources, as it would skew hydropower and renewables look much worse in statistics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure