publius on Nostr: As with the Machhu dam collapse in Gujarat a couple of years later, which is thought ...

As with the Machhu dam collapse in Gujarat a couple of years later, which is thought to have killed perhaps as many as 25 000 people, I tend to assign the River Ru catastrophe primarily to non-energy activities. But Vajont was a pure hydro dam, and the Buffalo Creek dam which collapsed in West Virginia, USA, in 1972 and killed 125 people was built to retain coal-mining waste, so is analogous to Aberfan.

All the disasters shown occurred in nuclear countries.