re: #114 Dark_Falcon

Someone who had forgotten about the Hindenburg disaster, that’s for sure. Large amounts hydrogen and heat are a time bomb. You knew that already, of course, but this is one of the times we agree on something.

Difference is the Hindenburg burned at the edges, it didn’t mix with oxygen first and then detonate. Releasing the gasses straight to the atmosphere would have allowed the hydrogen to rise up and away. Odds would be against it finding an ignition source before dissipation. Radiation levels would have increased outside much faster, but that’s a done deal now. A flare tower might work, if it didn’t produce tritiated water and radioactive cesium hydroxide, both of which were probably produced in these explosions.