Last August, a major failure occurred at Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric dam in Russia. With nearly 100 gigawatts of installed electric dams in the United States, experts wonder, could it happen ...

The huge Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, which stores the waters of the Yenisei, and the massive power station along it, that harnessed the power of the river, has also been the site of tragedy.

Indeed, the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam is itself a monument to remarkable ingenuity and determination, yet it is also a reminder of the tenuousness of human control over nature’s power.

A view from the dam of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station on the Yenisei River, where a turbine failure killed 75 people and crippled the facility, leaving hundreds of thousands ...

Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Station is Russia’s largest and one of the world’s most powerful hydroelectric plants. Located on the Yenisei River, this massive engineering marvel ...

The Sayano-Shushenskaya power station was considered state of the art when in was built in 1978, but its turbines have not been overhauled since Soviet times.

A general view shows the damaged dam of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station near Siberian village of Cheryomushki, about 520 km (323 miles) south of Krasnoyarsk, August 17, 2009 ...

Russian authorities were reportedly warned that Siberia's massive Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant had fallen into serious neglect and was unsafe in 1998.

The Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam ranks 9th on our list of largest hydroelectric dams and power plants in the world. It is also located on the Yenisei River. The construction works were going on from ...

The government of Khakassia won a case earlier this year contesting a 1992 deal that transferred state ownership of the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam to national power utility RAO Unified Energy System ...

Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam (Russia) Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam was completed in 1978 and the structure spans the Yenisei River in the Siberian region.