| From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster > Estimates of reduced life expectancy as a result of radiation released are highly uncertain and vary from 4,000 people in a United Nations study up to 200,000 in a Greenpeace study. Worst hydro disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam > According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province, approximately 26,000 people died in the province from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine. [...] Unofficial estimates of the number of people killed by the disaster have run as high as 230,000 people.[...] Best candidate for next hydro disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul_Dam (Apparently, it's stable now, but ...) > In February 2016, the United States Embassy in Iraq warned of a "serious and unprecedented" danger of the dam collapsing and suggested that plans for evacuation should be made, as the cities Mosul, Tikrit, Samarra, and Baghdad could be at risk in the event of collapse, and that up to 1.5 million people could be killed due to the ensuing flash floods.[...] |