United States Homeland Security officials were notified after an exploding vending machine turned the coolant freon into phosgene, a poisonous gas used as a chemical weapon in World War I.
The explosion forced the evacuation of 10 people from a Texas hospital......
Ms Ross said state Homeland Security officials had to be notified of the incident because of phosphene's possible use as a chemical weapon.....
Wow who would have thunk you could get killed buying a diet coke?
Phosgene, we had a story on that about a month ago, what was it? Somewhere in Canada? I forget!!
By Russ Niles Newswriter, Editor Pilots planning a trip up the California coast might have been alarmed by a NOTAM issued by the FAA for the Point Mugu area, just north of Los Angeles, earlier this week. The NOTAM advised of a "radiation hazard" for a 1.5-mile radius up to 8,000 feet around Point Mugu Naval Air Station and said the area is "continuously hot."
Since Point Mugu NAS is the Navy's missile and weapons test center, it might be assumed (not by anyone we know, of course) that the NOTAM referred to some kind of nuclear mishap.
Fortunately that wasn't the case. A spokesman for the FAA's Los Angeles operations center said the NOTAM was issued to allow the Navy to test some type of radar (hence the term radiation) at the base. Despite the heavy military activity around the base, the area is also heavily used by civilian traffic.
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