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userbinator on Sept 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anatomy of a Catastrophic Boiler Accident (1997)

Steam isn't exactly "stored", but the pressures involved mean that any small breach of confinement becomes dangerous.

londons_explore on Sept 8, 2021 [–]

oh yeah - it's still dangerous. But the danger changes to "will probably kill one person" rather than "will kill everyone in the ship/building"

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