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The Largest Dam in The World – The Three Gorges Dam, China
China’s Three Gorges Dam has the ability to survive nuclear attack, a hydropower expert has claimed following heated discussions about the safety of the nation’s nuclear projects and their implications on the dam, mainland media reports. Zhang Boting, deputy secretary general of China Society for Hydropower Engineering, said the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, located on the Yangtze River, had been designed as a concrete gravity dam, so that it was sturdier and would be resistant to nuclear attack, the news website Thepaper.cn in a report on Monday.The dam would not collapse even after a massive attack, the website quoted Zhang as saying. Zhang also said in views, which first appeared in a commentary on the society’s website on March 8, that there had been a wrong perception among some nuclear experts, who had argued that national security had not been a concern during the design process of the Three Gorges Dam project.
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