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PEPCON disaster. On May 4, 1988, a fire followed by several explosions occurred at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada. The disaster caused two fatalities, 372 injuries, and an estimated $100 million of damage. A large portion of the Las Vegas Valley within a 10-mile (16 km ...
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2[1] or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, [2] is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds of the United ...
The resulting fuel-air explosion destroyed the plant, killing 28 people and injuring 36 more. Beyond the plant 1,821 houses and 167 shops and factories had suffered to a greater or lesser degree. [64] Fires burned for 16 days. The explosion occurred during a weekend otherwise the casualties would have been much greater.
June 25, 1985: The Aerlex Fireworks plant explosion in Hallett, Oklahoma killed 21 people after a chain-reaction occurred. May 4, 1988: PEPCON disaster, Henderson, Nevada. A massive fire and explosions at a chemical plant killed two people and injured over 300. May 10, 1993: Kader Toy Factory fire. A fire started in a poorly built factory in ...
Mohave Power Station. Mohave Power Station (known also as Mohave Generating Station, or MOGS) was a 1580 megawatt electric (MWe) coal -fired power plant that was located in Laughlin, Nevada. Southern California Edison is the majority owner of the plant and was its operator. [2] The plant entered commercial operation in 1971.
Two workers injured in explosion, fire at chemical plant in East St. Louis Allnex was reportedly founded in 2013 after Advent International bought the Coating Resins Division as part of a sell-off ...
The explosion caused 29 deaths and serious damage to the port of Brest. [1] [9] [10] United States Presque Isle, Maine August 26, 1947: 0 217 An A.W. Higgins Company plant was destroyed by a spontaneous heating in a pile of mixed fertilizer. Stored in the plant were 240 tons of ammonium nitrate. [1] Canada: St. Stephen, New Brunswick 1947: 0 360
A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction.The driving reaction may be nuclear fission or nuclear fusion or a multi-stage cascading combination of the two, though to date all fusion-based weapons have used a fission device to initiate fusion, and a pure fusion weapon remains a hypothetical device.