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There was a huge explosion yesterday in Tennessee at plant that made explosive material for the military and industrial projects. https://www.newsweek.com/tennessee-explosion-update-no-survivors-found-at-volatile-scene-10865405

Video from a news chopper on the scene right after the explosion shows what looks like green almost glowing debris on the ground https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPooHZbDiee/

Any idea what it is?

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It's a not quite as blurry in the video https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPooHZbDiee/

But yeah definitely weird. It's apparently on a big campus in the middle of nowhere where they develop, manufacture, test, and store explosives for the military and private contractors. Oddly, it's also less than 3 hours away from the tiny town in TN that was created as a production site for the Manhattan Project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Ridge,_Tennessee

This building was supposed to just be where they manufacture, but some people have suggested that if it wasn't an intentional attack, they may have been storing things in the same building they were manufacturing for some reason.

Apparently an explosion happened a few years ago that killed 1 person and injured 4, but nothing like this.