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When flooding was imminent; all operations should have been shut down and all energetic (they manufacture organic peroxides) materials requiring refrigeration s
by zkms 9y ago
When flooding was imminent; all operations should have been shut down and all energetic (they manufacture organic peroxides) materials requiring refrigeration should have been removed from the site -- either by on-site destruction or by transport to another site. This is nowhere as challenging as Fukushima; it's really not hard to quickly transform organic peroxides into something inert/safe.
If they're fine with all their plant being ruined due to water ingress and don't care about flood protection, that's up to them, but if they're going to run away and leave unstable energetic materials, that's unacceptable.
At least their pressure relief systems seem to be somewhat working, per their spokespeople (https://twitter.com/keribla/status/903241791264215040 https://twitter.com/keribla/status/903241791264215040), it's far better that the relief valves/discs open up and that the peroxides flare themselves off than they stay unburnt and explode later.