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Why not build it in a remote location then?

Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don’t build dams upstream of a large town.

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The Chernobyl reactor’s explosion had impacts all the way in West Europe.

I don’t think you can be remote enough with this.

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