the mainstream theory on AZF, that seems rational is that some unwarned temporary worked have put some unmarked bags of chemical...
in fact the workers were stealing chloride for the swiming pool around, using unmarked bags. This was one of that bag that have been thrown on the heap of fertilizer. this fertilizer was ther since decades because it was forbidden today, becaus etoo much explosive in case of fire. Note that a boat of fertilizer have burned and exploded and put doewn the port of brest in the 50s (My dad was 200km away, in Perros-Gurec and have noticed the 50cm tsunami-like soliton in his fisher boat). It was because the fertilizer was coated with wax. now forbidden. the power of the explosion is no surprise. like in many case, the workers don't want to admit that it is their fault... even if the management is faluty too :letting such a dump, secured in theory, but loosely managed in fact, and letting theorically trained, but practically dumb, temporary workers work on the site. add to that a blind management, that don't wan't to see that the worked steal chemicals... and boom. Stupidity, cowardliness, greed, corruption, is a better explanation than conspiracy... 2012/8/28 Jones Beene <[email protected]> > Another mystery explosion to add to the list - is the AZF fertilizer plant > in France, which conspiracy theorist usually to attribute to terrorism ... > > http://rt.com/news/the-azf-explosion-of-toulouse-a-judicial-mystery/ > > There are a number of other fertilizer or ammonium explosions with high > body > count, which could be causally LENR related - at least in the sense of a > Mills' type reaction, where too much catalyst was retained in storage. > > Here is a list of the 25 worst of this type of explosion, but there are > hundreds of lesser ones. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters > > Not surprising in a way, since the stuff is unstable anyway. > > The key point for finding other causes than the ones often mentioned is > that > the Haber-Bosch process uses ruthenium or iron as catalyst. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process > > Both are on Mills' list of catalysts... even tiny amounts of catalyst > retained in bulk storage could be a trigger for a large explosion, since > the > Mills reaction gain comes in the form of EUV radiation, which immediately > decomposes ammonia. > > > > > >
