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"Peter Skelton" wrote in message ... On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:01:14 +0200, "Tamas Feher" wrote: A home-made armored Caterpillar turns Colorado into Palestine? Palestine has dead. The authorities ended this one without public deaths. Pure chance. They had no absolutely contact with the madman whatsoever . If he decided to target a chemical plant and cause a Bhopal-scale industrial disaster, the cops simply couldn't stop him. In the end an entire county could get killed. Do you know enough about the local geography and plants to say that this sort of thing is possible? I worked fifteen years in the CPI and rubber industries. It would not be possible in any plant I was involved with. Three of them had the potential to make Bhopal look trivial. To get a major disaster out of a modern process plant, you pretty much have to be in the control room. Bhopal and Chernobyl (sp?) are examples. Tear open a line in the wrong place and you have the potential for a major accident. For example at the outlet from the furnaces of a cracking unit the gas is above its self ignition temperature, a fracture here would be VERY bad news. In the case of the Flixborough accident in the UK a pressure vessel was bypassed by the maintenance dept using pipes and bellows units. Unfortunately the bypass was not properly anchored and a slug of liquid caused the bypass to tear loose. Keith ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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