A Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway tanker has ruptured and spilled dry sodium chlorate, according to Birmingham Fire and Rescue. The spill happened at the company's facility at 1801 Fourth ...

Sodium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage are moving toward the mainstream. Wider use of these batteries could lead to lower costs, less fire risk, and less need for lithium ...

At one minute to noon, on March 6, 1945, the steamship Green Hill Park, filled with general cargo, including tons of sodium chlorate, a chemical used to manufacture explosives, caught fire before ...

In my schooling (a lifetime ago), and in fire training more recently ... “The candles break down sodium chlorate, which can produce up to 24 hours of oxygen for one person,” Miccio said.

A cargo ship that smashed into a US military chartered oil tanker off the northeast coast of England on Monday was carrying sodium cyanide ... sparked a huge fire, a dramatic rescue effort ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a sodium battery that uses cheap, abundant materials as its building blocks and drastically lowers the technology’s fire risk. Mechanical ...