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> This resulted in 1 (one) death directly attributable to the incident

Plus more that 200 billion $ paid by tax money that are NOT accounted into the cost of nuclear energy.

Plus more deaths, injuries, loss of property value, etc due to the evacuation.

Plus the economical impact of having stricter building regulations in future to prevent the same from happening again in future.




This was the very definition of a black swan event.

Imagine if all dams were subjected to the same insanity after dam failures like Banqiao Dam failure


Most dams carry way more risk and way higher benefits.




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