Would an uncontrolled release have been better?
PA Gov agreed also.
Both were asked.
DeWine is sure fumbling this catastrophe.
“Would an uncontrolled release have been better?”
The option you suggest was not the only option available.
Transferring the product into other vessels would have been far more time consuming than the toxic mushroom cloud burn. But that would have been time consuming and would have kept the tracks out of commission far longer. Not a solution that Norfolk Southern presented or contemplated.
Solution: A burn that creates a toxic cloud of Phosgene, Ethyl Hexel and Butyl Acetate to spread over the Western PA Amish and Mennonite organix farms, the Ohio River basin, and all of the local waterways, and soil.
Great control there.
I read if they had not done it there would have been a massive explosion.