no, just dont neglect to use the special alloy plugs that will blow out before a steam explosion gets going.The worst possible thing is a very strong boiler that
can build fantastic pressure before it catestrophicly fails.called a flash boil, bad bad budda BOOM
other projects that replaced the fuseable plugs with welded in steel patches and then overheated with low water on up and down terrain have left very sizable craters, and no actual surviving evidence of the operator.
steam is still used in countless light and heavy industrial operations everywhere, but getting the "ticket" to operate one is not easy, but the basics like fuseable plugs are the same as they were a hundred years ago.
note: high pressure turbines are a different
system altogether and use exotic materials and tecniques, with the critical parts requiring x ray certification
Another note about steam engines, they were often run well above their safe pressure levels to produce more output ower, along with having safety features disabled so they wouldn't stop running, meaning stop making money. There's a rather scary YT video somewhere that goes into the details. So they weren't inherently as dangerous as records show, they were just run in a very dangerous and unsafe manner by their operators in order to maximise profit.
The YT channel is Iron and Memory, on the one hand interesting, OTOH heavily AI-slopped because an individual couldn't produce something on that scale without AI doing most of the work. It's OK in small doses until the slop gets to you. In particular the steam-boiler episode is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Qma3qi12A.
