Oh yeah, I mean if there is a catastrophic failure then you have almost 1 GJ of energy being released per kilometer of vacuum, so like a quarter of a ton of TNT which basically means if something catastrophic happened it would be like there was a line of dynamite the length of the tube that would go off (doesn't sound like a lot but if you are in the tube or at a loading zone then things can be violent and if there are battery arrays for the solar panels then you just increase the potential energy in those locations)
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Not to mention that the sudden re-pressurization would result in the whole system gaining a whole lot of thermal energy, probably burning everyone inside.