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Uploaded by on Feb 13, 2008

A fire at a rocket fuel (Sodium perchlorate) factory in Nevada causes a massive explosion, the factory was also over a gas main.

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  • The cheesy added noises are pathetic. Other than that, the explosion is truly impressive.

  • I know your right about that. I mean about the added sound effects. You hear the sound the moment the explosion occurs. That's never true. There's always a delay in time before you hear the sound of the explosion. Sound travels at about a 300 meters per second on sea level. Being 1 1/5 kilometres away it would last about five seconds you hear the explosion after it ocurred..

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  • the two people who died were the man on the phone with the 911 operator (who was subsequently fired) and the man who went after him.

  • @BenHutchinson1 It was a TV engineer on a near by mountain. You can hear a somewhat un-edited version by searching Pepcon Explosion - BEST QUALITY, UNEDITED. That is it from a TV show but is the actual audio without all the Hollywood crap.

  • that was on science channel also in fallout new vegas there is a REPcon facility so i had to watch this

  • Who filmed this? I'd like to email them and ask for a raw "straight from the camera" copy of the video, not edited and cut and fake sounds like from the news media. By the way, Youtube used to have such a copy! But I can't find it now :(

  • @jasong19711 hahaha!! u joker

  • the gas main was also filled with rocket fuel

  • It was Ammonium Perchlorate... not Sodium

  • this is giving muslims ideas....

  • You guys wanted to see what a 1KT equivalent blast looked and felt like. This was it! According to the investigators, the big blast was on par with a W55 nuclear device, only without the nuclear effects, only the blast and shockwave.

  • hey, where is superman?

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