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Comment by louwrentius | Hacker News Reader

This was amazing to watch. Highly recommended.

I do start to wonder if any of such materials are stored like this in one of our ports, such as Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

I can't imagine such a mess to exist there.

But The Netherlands remembers the Firework explosion in Enschede, from 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster

It's not nearly at the scale of Beirut, but it killed 23 people.

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Not exactly ‘stored’ but it’s one hell of a mess - the sunken explosives near London. If those went up the theories on what happens are horrifying.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/...

Non-AMP link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/17/fresh-fears-ss...

The BBC asked a similar question after the event: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53755289.

https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/moeten-wij-ons-in-nederland-zor... (Dutch)

The storage and production is highly regulated. Every suspicious event must be communicated with the "Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding" (coordinator counterterrorism).

Bedankt!

I would hope that every person in any type of supervisory role over a warehouse took this as an opportunity to say "Oh f*ck I need to make sure my warehouse isn't next"

Well, if you remember the horrible port explosion in Tianjin, it seems not unlikely, China is a major exporter to Europe. The west probably has better site safety rules and hazmat regulations in place, though.

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