so they blew up 700 tons of sodium cyanide and sent it into the air and water...
I seriously doubt
that actually happened, but that has to be seen against the backdrop of an almost complete lack of reliable data so far. We ‘know’ that ‘700 tons’ of sodium cyanide was stored on the grounds where the explosions occurred,
Shipping containers got blown around like autumn leaves. Reporters are describing cars flying around like matchsticks. Anything near the center of a 20+ kilo-ton explosion won't be staying there. If there was NaCy stored there, it's not there anymore.
And looking at the
acres of neatly parked burned out new cars, I'd say that anything combustable did get burned, after it got spread all over the area. So it's not just out of its package, it's in the air. The latest tests on local water show a tenfold increase in Cyanide levels after the explosion. Make no mistake, a lot of it got out.
