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 An investigative look at the regulatory and procedural gaps that allowed a chemical tank in Garden Grove, California to come within a crack of catastrophic explosion. CalMatters examines what regulators knew, what safety rules applied, and what the near-miss reveals about the gap between compliance and genuine operational safety.

A chemical tank rupture at a pulp and paper mill in Longview, Washington on May 26th claimed at least one life and left nine workers missing. Industrial incidents like this one are a sobering reminder of what's at stake when operational safeguards fall short.

 A storage tank holding between 6,000 and 7,000 gallons (22,700 and 26,500 liters) of methyl methacrylate overheated Thursday and began venting vapors into the air at an aerospace plastics facility in Garden Grove, a city in Orange County, the local fire authority said. 

 A new joint venture between global investment firm Brookfield and The Nuclear Company will project manage the completion of two long-stalled AP1000 nuclear units at the VC Summer site in South Carolina — construction that was abandoned in 2017. The partnership reflects growing momentum behind large-scale nuclear development in the U.S. and the ambition to establish a repeatable, scalable model for delivering Westinghouse reactor technology. For the industrial workforce that will ultimately operate these facilities, that ambition makes the operational readiness work ahead just as significant as the construction itself.