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hunter

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8. The before/after photo is terrifying, especially to anyone who has ever visited...

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Thu Aug 2, 2018, 12:57 PM

Aug 2018

...the turbine hall of a very large dam.

https://www.powermag.com/investigating-the-sayano-shushenskaya-hydro-power-plant-disaster/?pagenum=2

Of further note, more than 100 metric tons of oil was spilled in the accident, killing trout in farms downstream, and otherwise damaging the environment. Which reminds me again how non-radioactive toxins spilled by tsunamis, some of them having half lives of forever, are largely ignored by anti-nuclear activists.

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Wow. I didn't even know that hydroelectric plants could explode, killing people. [View all] NNadir Jul 2018 OP

A freaking lawnmower can explode. Eko Jul 2018 #1

A turbine at a nuclear power plant (or any kind of power plant) can explode too. n/t progree Jul 2018 #3

Aw, Eko Jul 2018 #4

Russian "maintenance" Mopar151 Jul 2018 #2

Not surprising after reading the entire article Kilgore Jul 2018 #5

I am aware that the plant was poorly maintained. NNadir Jul 2018 #6

SSH John ONeill Aug 2018 #7

The before/after photo is terrifying, especially to anyone who has ever visited... hunter Aug 2018 #8