thinking about this a tiny bit more....
they dont have a way to just pump this stuff some where else, there may be no reverse functionality at all, just a linear assembly line, or that would have happened right away.
and the tank could be ready to fail completly, making anyone right there, dead when it does.
somebody is saying to drop a bomb on it and be done with it
and that, is getting bumped, higher, and higher, and higher
and the whole thing has to be explained, again, and again, and again