(Times of Israel) Sue Surkes - Prof. Dan Shechtman of Haifa's Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, who received the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry, said Wednesday that the explosion in Beirut on Tuesday will not happen in Israel. He said the most dangerous thing in civilian use is liquefied gas, which "will go up in flames and create a big fire but not an explosion." He added: "In Kiryat Ata, and probably other places too, the containers are protected by concrete walls that are higher than the containers themselves." Shechtman said Israel has ammonium nitrate - the material that exploded in Beirut, but "in Israel, it's not concentrated in a particular place. There are small amounts all over the country."
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