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retrac
on Aug 30, 2020
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After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy i...
Dam failures would like a word.
Dahoon
on Aug 30, 2020
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You can live on that land unlike on radioactive wasteland.
retrac
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Ironically enough, you can only live on it if the dam fails. Otherwise you're consigning up to thousands of square kilometers of often prime real estate underwater indefinitely.
webmaven
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I think the reference was to the
downstream
land flooded by a dam failure.
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