“Burning Freon produces a nerve gas that was used to kill troops in World War I. EPA spokeswoman Tina Kreisher said Monday that the supply below the twin towers appears to be in no danger of igniting.”
Wrong. It produces Phosgene gas which is an irritant not a nerve gas. It doesn’t “burn” either.
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/phosgene/basics/facts.asp
With idiots like this in EPA no wonder we are screwed.
I thought it was Phosgene, at least that’s what the Navy puts out in training. Although we were also told that Phosgene was deadly, so I don’t know.
I just found this on the internet.
“Phosgene is worse. It also causes severe lung damage, but it’s harder to detect. There’s certainly a distinct phosgene odor (sort of an acrid rotting-vegetation smell, supposedly not so bad a low concentrations.) But that means the gas can be present at dangerous levels (especially over time) without being particularly noticeable or offensive. And if you don’t know what the smell is (and what it means) you can be badly injured without realizing the danger. The majority of chemical fatalities in World War I came from phosgene.”
Twas the NERPA. - Akula II class attack sub.
Looks like they may need to beach this class for a bit to work out the fire extinguishing systems.
“Russian news agencies quoted officials at the Amur Shipbuilding Factory as saying the submarine was built there and is called the Nerpa.
Construction of the Nerpa, an Akula II class attack submarine, started in 1991 but was suspended for years because of a shortage of funding, they said. Testing on the submarine began last month and it submerged for the first time last week.”