RE: The fear is that if the Three Gorges Dam collapses, we’re talking 510 million people upstream and downstream of the dam under threat.
I dunno, we keep getting regular press releases from the Chinese government telling us not to worry as the Three Gorges Dam will hold.
they are not saying that anymore
They admitted publicly that they are starting to see metal fatigue and deformations in parts of the dam.
It’s going to be horrific if it happens, and after the Wuhan Flu, 2019/2020 will be the ‘Chernobyl’ event year for China. I don’t think they’ll recover as they are currently constituted if this dam goes.
consider one of the larger upstream ones going, it could be enough to take out the ones below it. cascade failire.