Some of the world’s deadliest industrial accidents have involved ammonium nitrate, including a 2013 explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board, an independent federal agency ...

Leader of a multiyear health impact study says work with neighbors of the fire site continues as does the environmental ...

Why was the explosion so massive? "The plant uses ammonium nitrate in fertilizer production, the same chemical used in 1995's Oklahoma City Bombing," says Siobhan Morris at Newstalk 1010.

A vessel loaded with 20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate – the same chemical that left large parts of Beirut in ruins in an explosion in 2020 – is nearing the port of Abidjan. Campaigners have expressed ...

Initial investigations into the Beirut port blast indicate years of inaction and negligence over the storage of highly explosive material caused the explosion ... tons of ammonium nitrate, used ...

Although normally used as an agricultural fertiliser, ammonium nitrate can also be used to make explosives. It was an explosion of ammonium nitrate in Beirut in 2020 that killed more than 220 ...

Estimated yield: 1.1 kilotons of TNT Location: Beirut, Lebanon Date: 2020 Details: An accidental explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored ... This Soviet test was the largest ...

The Chippewa County Department of Public Health has received a $10,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, to improve environmental public health, by increasing private well water ...

CAUSING THE EXPLOSION. YOU CAN SEE SOME O After launching from Texas on Thursday, SpaceX lost contact with Starship during its seventh test flight and confirmed the rocket exploded about 10 ...

The port of Beirut suffered a massive explosion back in August 2020 ... The disaster caused by the combustion of ammonium nitrate devastated parts of the city and aggravated the political and ...