PEPCON Explosion

PEPCON rocket fuel plant disaster.

The plant manufactured an oxidizer called Ammonium Perchlorate. Ammonium Perchlorate is not in itself a fuel but a key component. It will however explode if heated to a high temperature in a confined space.

Henderson, Nevada

May 4, 1988

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• PEPCON
• disaster
• explosion
• rocket
• fuel
• plant
• accident
• henderson
• nevada
• ammonium
• perchlorate

[splejx]

@TommyVercettiJK

its not a frame from a different explosion. look at the building on the left. the explosion is just too bright for the camera. its clearly an old one, VHS or something like that.

[MIK3Yproductionz]

anyone play fallout.... located by vegas PEPCON REPCON

[punishalltrolls]

@anger4bill i heard it affected up to a 10-mile radius. is it only 1 kiloton?

[anger4bill]

I was roughly 5 miles away from this when it went off.loudest thing I have ever heard.blew out windows and caved in ceiling tiles 5 miles away.bad buzz indeed.

[principles101]

@NFSHeld Thank you for clarifying:) Got it.

[NFSHeld]

@principles101 I guess you'd agree with me if you understood what I wrote :) I said that this video was also on Discovery Channel in the show "Destroyed in Seconds". However, they (DC) edited a blast sound into the video: the audible bang occured in the same second like the visible blow up. This is how you know that it was edited into the footage. Then I said that such matters are the difference between documentations and DC TV shows made for the awe of its audience, and criticized DC for that.

[principles101]

@NFSHeld You are completely incorrect. I was teaching at a Henderson school when this occurred. It was even worse than this experiencing it in the raw. Where did you get your information from regarding "ADDED a blast sound?" It was from a faulty source for sure.

[SoapWalrus]

damn interesting

[galacticninja7]

Well ain't that a kick in the head.

[mrsaucy1112]

my teacher told us about this, he said his front door flew inside his house when the shockwave hit lol.

[000EmObOy000]

PEPCON is in the Fallout games 3 and New Vegas. to make sure they didn't get sued Obsideon Entertainment changed the P into an R and added an N to the ending.