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Dam in Question

China’s Three Gorges Dam cost $15.6 billion, displaced 1.2 million people, and has 19 hydropower generators expected to produce 84.7 million megawatt-hours of electricity each year. Now, reports of landslides around the dam are stoking fears of a super-sized disaster.

Photo: Three Gorges hydropower (Mr. Frosted)