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“Aboard the ship were nearly 1,500 containers, dozens of which contained dangerous goods, including nitric acid, sodium methoxide and methanol. In addition to the chemicals, the small plastic pellets pose a danger to marine life. ‘It’s very close to a nuclear disaster, what has happened here.'” WaPo with a very detailed examination of how a fire aboard a container ship has caused one of the worst environmental disasters Sri Lanka has ever seen.