The "fun" part is that hydroelectric dam failures are even more localized and in many cases much more deadly, but people generally don't remember them either.

The "fun" part is that hydroelectric dam failures are even more localized and in many cases much more deadly, but people generally don't remember them either. As far as I can tell the single most deadly power plant disaster in history was the 1975 Banquiao Dam failure[0] that killed 26000 to 240000 people. Yet when you try to google "most deadly power plant disasters" you'll mostly get Chernobyl with 100 attributed deaths. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure