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not fooled

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1. I hope they get the safety issues ironed out
Sun Oct 29, 2023, 02:41 PM
Oct 2023

Hydrogen gas is highly explosive and notoriously difficult to contain.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nel-blast-idUSKBN2AG2N4]

Norway fines Nel units $3 million over 2019 blast at hydrogen fuel station

By Reuters Staff

2 Min Read

OSLO (Reuters) - Nel, a Norwegian maker of zero-emission hydrogen technology, said on Tuesday the authorities had fined two of its units a total of 25 million crowns ($2.97 million) for an incident at a hydrogen fuel station in 2019.

Hydrogen gas leaked from a tank at the station near Oslo in June 2019 and exploded, injuring three people when a pressure wave triggered airbags in their cars nearby, according to Nel and police reports.
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The company has previously said it took responsibility for the incident, which it said was caused by an assembly error of a specific plug in a hydrogen tank in a high-pressure storage unit.

Since then, the company has changed assembly procedures and says its hydrogen refuelling stations are as safe as conventional fuelling stations.

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