[MerelyMortal]

If a damn fails, I imagine the result would be pretty devestating to anything downstream.

[DrBazza]

Yup. More deaths in this one dam failure in China than all worldwide nuclear deaths combined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

[pvaldes]

Big intensity, short duration.

Nuclear accidents will be devastating for thousands of years so very different things.

This is like saying that high voltage is harmless because high amperage can kill you also. Time to move on further in this discussion and stop talking about that damn. Is a popular stance but useless to compare both