THE GUARDIAN – Men in orange vests released a harmless, invisible, odorless gas on a subway platform at Grand Central terminal on Monday, part of a test of how air moves through tunnels and potentially how a biological contaminant would travel through the nation’s biggest transit system during a terrorist attack.
There is no health risk. The gas contains tracing particles that look like drops of perfume from an atomizer before quickly dissipating.
Researchers also are watching how and where the particles settle, and whether they re-disperse into the air as trains zoom by. The test vapors are called perfluorocarbon tracer gases and present no health or environmental hazard to the public, officials said. Gas will be released for five days at two of three major transit hubs: Grand Central, Times Square or Penn Station.
About 5.6 million people ride the New York City subway on an average weekday. Bansleben said it would take months to analyze the results, which will be used to help emergency managers and responders develop strategies on how best to respond.
“There will be a lot of information that is not being made public. I think we do want to be careful with what we do say,” he said.
Similar studies have been done in Washington DC and Boston. One in New York in 2013 focused on chemical, not biological, agents, officials said. That study was run in partnership with the city’s transit agency, police department and the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. There also was an airflow study in New York in 2005.
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