[lazide]

They have been quite common - they just aren’t typically in the middle of a major metro with 1000 cameras on them, because most governments aren’t that dysfunctional.

Notably, metallic sodium at scale would be way worse than this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster].

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos...].

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster]

I’m not aware of anyone crazy enough to stockpile pure metallic sodium to anything like this scale. Here is the gov’t dumping a barrel of it in a lake though [https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM?si=aSJ2dPLrXsUuGOOJ].

[robocat]

Love that disposal - lucky the lake has no fish. Here's the link without the tracking (ShareInsights &si)

"The Disposal of Sodium, 1947 Washington" 20000 lbs of Sodium

https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM