----- Sodium Hydroxide Leaks at Japanese Chemical Plant

Information Added: Thursday, January 13, 2000 - 5:23 PM ----- About 2,000 liters of sodium hydroxide solution leaked at the plant in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward this morning, according to police.

Five workers complained of eye pains after the solution leaked from a tank.

No additional details, including the name of the company, were available from media reports.

Sodium hydroxide solution is clear and colorless liquid with no odor. It reacts with water and moisture and produces corrosive fumes.

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-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 13, 2000

Answers

another sewage spill

-- Cin (Cinlooo@aol.com), January 13, 2000.

Good post. We need to know this sort of thing. Perhaps someone could cobble together a little digest of the world's news and post it here to help us in our quest to understand Y2K effects.

-- ImSo (happy@prepped.com), January 13, 2000.

Another ridiculous post. My God, there were never any chemical spills prior to 2000 were there?

-- Mr. Sane (hhh@home.com), January 13, 2000.

It would only be ridiculous if it could be shown that it is not Y2K related.

I suspect you are not taking issue with the facts as stated but questioning whether it has any relation to Y2K/embedded systems/process control failures.

Since the process is not supposed to leak, something surely did fail. Was it Y2K? I don't know and neither I assume do you because if you did have any facts you would post them.

Chiding another's post as ridiculous without offering any facts or supporting information is a waste of bandwidth and time.

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), January 13, 2000.

Actually, it appears to be very much Y2K related.

-- (Ozman@heftren.org), January 14, 2000.