Three Gorges Dam - China has a new Great Wall? (part 3)

China is almost finished with the Three Gorges Dam, it's biggest construction project since the Great Wall. The Dam, btw, is visible from every satellite in space.

The dam is a mile and half long, creates a reservoir 370 miles up the Yangtze River, delivers the equivalent of 18 nuclear power plants worth of power and...and...is huge! 

It is so huge, it takes three blogs to write about the whole thing.

The dam will already flood out more than 1.2 million people. At least that flooding is planned.

China is sensitive to flooding. In 1975 the Bianqiao Dam failed causing other dams to fail and eventually more than 230,000 people were killed....and no one found out for nearly 20 years!

There are already cracks (surface cracks, say officials) in the Three Gorges Dam. There is

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