[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: "5 things to know about the PEPCON disaster, 28 years later, " Henderson, NV

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

5 things to know about the PEPCON disaster, 28 years later

By CAITLIN LILLY 
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL(NV)
May 4, 2016 

Twenty-eight years ago, the Las Vegas Valley experienced one of the largest explosions in history — PEPCON.

A fire started inside a building at Pacific Engineering and Production Corporation of Nevada’s (PEPCON) plant on May 4, 1988. In four minutes, the fire rapidly spread and ignited three massive explosions.

Here are five things you may not know about the explosion that rocked the southern end of the Valley:

The explosion made history

According to a NASA case study on the disaster, the PEPCON explosion, which was the result of sparks from a welding torch setting ablaze a fiberglass infrastructure, created the largest domestic, non-nuclear explosion in recorded history. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/trending/silver-state/5-things-know-about-the-pepcon-disaster-28-years-later

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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