Posted on 08/13/2015 6:59:54 PM PDT by proust
More than 200 nuclear and biochemical experts from the Chinese military have been sent to the port city of Tianjin after two huge explosions killed at least 50 people.
A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency's Beijing environmental emergency response centre has also gone to the area.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Looks to me like to me like one or two BLEVE’s. That’s a Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion. Basically, it’s when a liquid storage vessel over-heats and ruptures... The sudden loss of containment causes the liquid to rapidly expand into a vapor cloud, which then explodes.
They can be devastating.
Tianjin was a major source of chemical shipment in and out of China. There’s no telling what all might have been stored there. And, let’s just say.... Their safety standards are not “quite” as stringent as ours.
This event will cause a disruption in chemical transport and supply.
Would not be surprised. Know MD who worked on Chernobyl victims. Could be as many as 81,000 fatalities over the 3 to 8 generations it will take to eliminate the structural cell damage in offspring of children who were in Pripyat, Chernobyl Oblast (county), Gomel Oblast and surrounding areas.
Wow!
You’re right-sometimes things appear worse than they actually are.
The Chinese government has sent 200 experts specialized in chemical and nuclear weapons.
DA! thank you.
I dont know who the original source is for either the dutch article or sky news
they both may have been supplied the “news” by the chi com news bureau
Meanwhile in Iran, Turkey is allowing us to strike ISIS because they whacked Kurd Peshmerga with Chemical weapons.
Really? how hard is it to distill some clorine and stick it on an unguided rocket?
And Turkey hates the Kurds
I dont think they like us.
Reporting is largely sensationalism, usually to drive political opinions.
Found out when I was a kid that mixing discarded chemicals from the Gilbert chemistry set with the chemicals in my Friends Moms hair salon is bad joo joo.
We endeavoured to learn more LOL
The IAEA is interested in all the processes that lead to nuclear weapons, not just in actual nuclear weapons explosions.
Something could go wrong in the enrichment process, etc., as happened with Stuxnet in Iran.
Something could also get screwed up in designing the “soccer ball” of shaped conventional explosives in building or testing a warhead.
Yep, good points
Any one recall this one in Venezuela?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyMrCTt6gYE
No deaths reported.
As a container port, the possibility exists that it may have been a dirty bomb inside a container. The mooselimbs would love to send us one from China to start it all.
BLEVE is quite plausible, but the shape of the blast wasn’t linear enough (assuming cylindrical high pressure storage vessel with thinner end caps like we use here). Then again, Chinese steel and welding..... You’re probably right.
That guy seems to have a fantasy view of China and Russia. Chinese devaluation has more to do with China’s economic incompetence and impending financial collapse because they have 200 percent debt over their GDP. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist.
Russia also isn’t going to be dropping any “truth bombs.” Russia is a KGB-CryptoCommunist state that is at the center of an empire of lives. They also are economic basket cases whose only goal in life is to shit over the entire world. Same with China, and that’s why they’re devaluing their currency— misery likes company and causing trouble for other countries helps distract their brainless, ant like masses.
By the way, what nuclear blast explodes twice?
Hillary discovered that her hacked emails were stored there.
End of story.
Thermonuclear
Or if they were using the supercomputer to run simulations
If there was such a package being assembled in China, would be a real shame if it blew up before it left port
The buyer who commissioned it would be real sad too
Just sayin...’
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