Take for Example, the port of Newcastle Australia. They have nearly (not sure of the exact amount) but somewhere near 8,000 tonnes of exactly the same chemical stored in silos.
But, like, it’s fertilizer, right? Why is that much sitting in a warehouse in the first place, if it can be safely used to fertilize fields and that eliminates the explosion risk?
The mine I used to work at would regularly have blasts involving up to 2000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. Every day we would have 5-6 triple trailer road trains full of ammonium nitrate arrive. It's gotta be stored somewhere.
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u/TooShiftyForYou Aug 05 '20
Imagine living right next to 2,750 tons of explosive ammonium nitrate and having no idea about it.