RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Still producing “…if something happens to the dam, all turbines and consequently all mines and smelters go down.”
You mean a drought or something? Practically guaranteed.
“I don't have the requisite engineering knowledge to select one or the other.”
Neither do I. But I do question the practicality of trucking and storage of the amount of diesel fuel required to power mine, and of nuclear power without inclusion of the cost of disposal of spent fuel rods. Also, I wonder what would happen in a blacked-out nation if the public could see a nighttime glow in the north where the brightly lit mine has plenty of power. Would public resentment of unequal access to power translate into political action, ala Mali?