60,000 tons of explosive chemical ammonium nitrate lost in shipping: report

[tlwagg]

Dang!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/60-000-tons-of-explosive-chemical-ammonium-nitrate-lost-in-shipping-report/ar-AA1bsOCl

60,000 tons of explosive chemical ammonium nitrate lost in shipping: report
Story by Kathianne Boniello • 3h ago

About 60,000 tons of an explosive chemical disappeared from a rail car last month as it was being shipped through the western US, according to reports.
Explosives company Dyno Nobel reported the vanishing ammonium nitrate — the main ingredient in Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City — to the federal National Response Center on May 10, KQED reported.
The chemical, which can also be used as a fertilizer, was put on a rail car that departed Cheyenne, Wyo., on April 12, headed for California, and the rail car was found empty two weeks later during a stop in the Mojave Desert, the outlet said.
Four separate investigations have since been launched.
The company was shipping the ammonium nitrate in pellet form and believes it may have begun falling out of the rail car at some point during the trip, a Dyno Nobel spokesman told KQED.
Ammonium nitrate was the main ingredient in Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City.AP
“The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale [Calif.]. The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit,” the spokesperson told the station.
Dyno Nobel did not immediately return The Post’s request for comment.

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Yes, But that barn that blew up and killed all those cows was an accident !

And should that be Lbs instead of Tons ??  A rail car of Urea can not hold 60K tons !

[tlwagg]

Amazing how the news media gets it wrong, all the time! I forgot to add the video that pointed that fact out. The problem ammonium nitrate was still lost. They tried to use that fact with the supposed 'white supremacist' attack on the White House. You did notice how charges were downgraded really fast on that one. I looks like the media couldn't sell that story. Even after pointing you don't have to be white to be a 'white supremacist'. 

I'm sure just when Brandon is in a jam it will be used somewhere.