[la_fayette]

This summer a large part of germany was completely flooded. This was a natural disaster, which might happen at higher frequencies nowadays. The alarming systems in place competely failed and around 200 people drowned in Germany. There are so many things which could happen and countries like Germany are not prepared for.

[junon]

Which is exactly why geologists do surveying before they build a nuclear power plant...

[la_fayette]

This is ridiculous! The house owners were convinced that there couldn't take place a flooding in that area! Most of them had no insuranced for flooding either. No specialist of any kind has predicted such a scenario...

[junon]

Those houses aren't nuclear reactors. The safety measures were exponentially less stringent.

[luckylion]

> This was a natural disaster, which might happen at higher frequencies nowadays.

You don't build nuclear power plants in narrow valleys with known flood events though. I mean, you also don't build wind turbines in swamps and hope they don't fall over, or put solar panels on your roof and don't fasten them.

[la_fayette]

https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/770/floodi...

[WalterBright]

Building a castle in a swamp can work, though.

[gnabgib]

Certainly by the time you get to the fourth one, the strongest castle in these islands