Well, I handled demolitions in the military, but I used to use binary's in power plants. Whenever a tube in the superheat would spring a leak, the steam would cause the unburnt coal to slag up. The longer it went, the more slag would accumulate, until it would finally shut itself down. We would go into the superheat section and detonate binary charges and the concussion would make the clinker break off and fall the bottom of the boiler, where grinders would chew it into smaller pieces, for disposal. I have seen clinkers the size of a school bus. Sometimes we would have to set off 60-75 charges, and then use shotguns to shoot off the remaining small stuff. There were times we would be in and out in 8 hours. Other times, on big jobs, we would be there for a week. Power plants were losing millions of $ each hour they were down, so if it was an emergency job, in peak season, they would fly us in, at their expense, to get them back up and running. If it was a planned outage, it was either in the spring, or fall, when the demand for electricity was at its lowest. We used binaries because they were the safest, and we could fly them in the airplane, since they were two separate compounds that only became active upon mixing. Plus, only a blasting cap could detonate it. Very safe.