Archived LIES ON VOAT - Israel Hits Beirut with Nuclear Missile, Trump and Lebanese Govt. Confirm (voat.co)
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Archived LIES ON VOAT - Israel Hits Beirut with Nuclear Missile, Trump and Lebanese Govt. Confirm (voat.co)
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[–] OricaTonithos 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Low-order, cap-sensitive materials that are available in high quantity are hands down the biggest danger in a port area. Munitions are usually always accompanied by trained people who are properly armed and diligent. Farming chemicals with risks known only by a few in charge of port operations who make money decisions about how much should be spent on security and safety will give a problem less attention than it deserves...Unless, of course they are forced by their government to maintain that attention.
[–] RevDrStrangelove 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Everybody and their brother knows about Ammonium Nitrate. ANFO - Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil (diesel) is an old-school stump remover. McVeigh fucked that up for everyone.
[–] OricaTonithos ago
I think port officials were banking on a closed warehouse that no one else rented wouldn't attract undue attention. They were wrong. Many industrial incidents have come from that kind of negligence. Those bags don't exactly say "explosives: keep back" or some kind of hazard placarding, because bulk.... The manifest or cargo description/paperwork would reveal that.
As to ANFO, the "fuel oil" component is there to stabilize the ammonium nitrate from contaminants that would inhibit a rapid (explosive) reaction through steam generation during the burn that would get in the way. Water would attenuate or even prevent an explosion, as well as form solids of the ammonium nitrate that wouldn't be easy to transport. ANFO is a popular blasting "slurry" and stinks like #2 oil, whereas ammonium nitrate hardly gives off an odor. As long as it's kept dry, it's pretty stable. My guess is that if someone were to try to make it 'blow up', they would dump fuel oil into one of the bags and light it off. It will burn, and then becomes pretty volatile once going. If port workers knew that an ammonium nitrate stock were on fire, some brave souls would try to be getting water on it while all the others were trying to get to safe distance.