[AR] Re: LOX-Methane Kabooms

  • From: J Farmer <jfarmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 13:25:34 -0400

On 5/26/2016 1:16 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:

On Thu, 26 May 2016, James Bowery wrote:
LNG tanks represent a terror threat while in port, so assuming they're doing their job *cough* I would imagine DHS would have some, probably classified, studies on the maximum yield attainable by a deliberately destroyed very large LNG tank...

Studies involving deliberate destruction might be hard to get copies of, but studies of worst-case LNG *accidents* go back long before the US's post-9-11 security panic, and should be findable. I'd be very surprised if John S. hadn't already thought of that...

They go back to before my son's birth in '88. My wife before he was born did the computer modeling for several reports dealing with LNG shipping "accidents" in port cities. Nearly as much fun as her previous work in nuclear fault tree analysis....

John

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