30 tons of ammonium nitrate was reported missing from a train car after it stopped in the Mojave Desert.
The chemical was shipped by train from Cheyenne, Wyoming last month but when it arrived in the Mojave Desert two weeks later, its holding car was empty and the nitrate was gone. Dyno Nobel, the company responsible for shipping the ammonium nitrate is a leader in commercial explosives and filed a report with the federal National Response Center on May 10 and an investigation is currently underway.
, “The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale. The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit.”Given that the chemical can be used to make highly explosive bombs, the loss of such anis highly concerning, and Stan Blake, a former Wyoming lawmaker and retired train conductor toldit wouldn’t have been difficult to drain the train car of the material.
that there is a team working to investigate how the supposed leak occurred. “We take this matter seriously and will work to understand how it happened and how it can be prevented from occurring again,” the spokesperson said.
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