&gt; no other failure of tech comes close<p>Chernobyl killed 56 people directly. The full lifespan of the radioactive leak is statistically estimated to result in shortening the lifespan of roughly 4,000 people through cancer[0].<p>If you can&#x27;t think of a more deadly technology failure incident, then you&#x27;re horribly undereducated. You don&#x27;t even need to go beyond the scope of electricity production to find incidents that were orders of magnitude more deadly. The Banqiao Dam hydro power station catastrophically failed and killed an estimated 171,000 people.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_...</a>