Iran's ministers for industry and advanced technology were unavailable for comment.
Posted on 12/12/2011 4:10:06 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Seven people, including foreign nationals, were killed, and more than a dozen wounded in another blast in Iran, this time at a steel plant. It is not known if the factory has any connection with Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The explosion occurred Monday evening in the city of Yazd and comes after two previous blasts in the area of nuclear facilities. Yazd is located approximately 175 miles southeast of Isfahan, where an explosion severely damaged a uranium enrichment facility last month.
Iranian stage television reported that five people were found dead on the scene at the steel plant and that another two died after being rushed to hospitals.
The official reason for the explosion was the presence of water in steel furnaces.
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LLS
Oh...this makes me so sad.
It does happen...there used to be a great video on YouTube of a charge of scrap steel (that had snow and ice in it from outside storage) being dropped into an electric furnace. The frozen stuff flashed into live steam and exploded very nicely, with lots of molten steel droplets flying, before the charge finished hitting the furnace floor.
Quite a show...but not enough to kill seven people (unless they didn’t have the sense to get off the mill floor during the charge).
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LLS
Wasn’t me...
Centrifuge tubes used in the uranium enrichment process are made of maraging steel.
Not sure if that’s what kind of alloy this plant made, though.
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