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Dahoon on Aug 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy i...

You can live on that land unlike on radioactive wasteland.

retrac on Aug 30, 2020 [–]

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 on Sept 1, 2020 | [–]

I think the reference was to the downstream land flooded by a dam failure.

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