An Inviting Target ; Debate Rages Over Security for Chlorine Producer
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › April 24, 2006
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It's considered one of the "dangerous dozen" one of the 12 chemical plants in the country that, if attacked by terrorists, could endanger millions of lives. It's in an industrial stretch of New Jersey often called the most vulnerable two miles in America.
If there's a poster child for New Jersey's campaign for better security at chemical plants, the Kuehne Chemical Co. bleach and chlorine plant in Kearny is it.See the full content of this document
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An Inviting Target ; Debate Rages Over Security for Chlorine Producer
The company's own risk assessment predicted that a rupture of a chlorine-filled railcar at its factory could spew a deadly gas over a 14-mile radius, threatening up to 12 million people in North Jersey, Manhattan and beyond.
Its white storage tanks have been used as a backdrop for politicians and activists holdi...See the full content of this document
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