60,000 pounds of an explosive chemical lost? Really???
From Greg M
About 60,000 pounds of a chemical used as both a fertilizer and an explosive is missing after likely disappearing during a rail trip from Wyoming to California last month, according to federal records.
A rail car carrying ammonium nitrate left a plant operated by explosives manufacturer Dyno Nobel in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12, according to an incident report filed May 10 by a representative of the company with the National Response Center.
The report states the chemical was released "due to an unknown cause," and was discovered missing after the rail car arrived in Saltdale, California, an unincorporated community more than 1,000 miles from Cheyenne.
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Greg- This was ammonium nitrate in "prill" form, which is a mining explosive. This material is made to easily flow so that it can be pumped into drill holes prior to blasting. It also needs to be mixed with diesel fuel or similar product to become explosive. That being said, it dribbled out of the hopper car from a loose/incorrectly closed hopper door, and the material is spread over hundreds of miles of railroad track. These things happen. If the bottom hopper door had only a small gap that prevented closing, no one would have notice a tiny trickle of material leaking out. I am not concerned in the slightest on this incident.
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Yep... and then someone just so happened to crash (and I use that word lightly) into a barricade near the White House and just so happened to have a Nazi flag (that the police ever so nicely laid out for everyone to take pictures of) with an EMPTY U-Haul Truck...
Something here is certainly off...