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    The Bhopal gas tragedy occurred in 1984 when a leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a pesticide plant owned and operated by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal, India exposed hundreds of thousands of people. The gas leak occurred when water entered an underground storage tank containing methyl isocyanate, resulting in a chemical reaction that caused the deadly gas to escape. Over 600,000 people were exposed to the toxic gas, resulting in thousands of deaths in the first few days alone and many subsequent deaths and injuries in the years after from prolonged effects. The plant had a history of prior leaks and safety issues in the years leading up to the disaster. After the leak, UCIL chairman Warren Anderson

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    The Bhopal gas tragedy occurred in 1984 when a leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a pesticide plant owned and operated by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal, India exposed hundreds of thousands of people. The gas leak occurred when water entered an underground storage tank containing methyl isocyanate, resulting in a chemical reaction that caused the deadly gas to escape. Over 600,000 people were exposed to the toxic gas, resulting in thousands of deaths in the first few days alone and many subsequent deaths and injuries in the years after from prolonged effects. The plant had a history of prior leaks and safety issues in the years leading up to the disaster. After the leak, UCIL chairman Warren Anderson

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    The Bhopal gas tragedy occurred in 1984 when a leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a pesticide plant owned and operated by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal, India exposed hundreds of thousands of people. The gas leak occurred when water entered an underground storage tank containing methyl isocyanate, resulting in a chemical reaction that caused the deadly gas to escape. Over 600,000 people were exposed to the toxic gas, resulting in thousands of deaths in the first few days alone and many subsequent deaths and injuries in the years after from prolonged effects. The plant had a history of prior leaks and safety issues in the years leading up to the disaster. After the leak, UCIL chairman Warren Anderson

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    The Bhopal gas tragedy occurred in 1984 when a leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a pesticide plant owned and operated by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal, India exposed hundreds of thousands of people. The gas leak occurred when water entered an underground storage tank containing methyl isocyanate, resulting in a chemical reaction that caused the deadly gas to escape. Over 600,000 people were exposed to the toxic gas, resulting in thousands of deaths in the first few days alone and many subsequent deaths and injuries in the years after from prolonged effects. The plant had a history of prior leaks and safety issues in the years leading up to the disaster. After the leak, UCIL chairman Warren Anderson

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    BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY

    UNIL FACTORY
    • UNION Carbide India limited (UNIL)factory was built in 1969 to produce
    the pesticide using methyl isocyanate (MIC) as an intermediate
    • IN the early 1980s,the demand for pesticides had fallen, but production
    continued ,leading to build-up of store of unused MIC where that method
    was used
    • AN MIC production plant was added to the UCIL site in 1979.The
    chemical process employed in the Bhopal plant had MIC reacting with
    phosgene to form MIC
    IGNORANCE

    • IN 1976 two local trade unions complained of pollution within the plant .In
    1981,worker was accidentally splashed with phosgene as he was caring out a
    maintenance job of the plant’s pipes
    • IN January 1982 ,a phosgene leak exposed 24 workers, all of whom were admitted
    to a hospital .None of the workers had been ordered to wear protective masks
    • One month later in February 1982,an MIC leak affected 18 workers in august
    1982,a chemical engineer came into contact with liquid MIC resulting in burn over
    30 percent of his body .later that same year in October 1982 ,there was another
    MIC leak
    LEAKAGE
    • The Bhopal UCIL facility housed three underground 68,000 liters liquid
    MIC storage tanks.
    • IN late October 1984 ,tank E610 lost the ability to effectively contain
    most of its nitrogen gas pressure.it meant that the liquid MIC Contained
    within could not be pumped out
    BHOPAL DISASTER
    • During the late evening hours of 2 December 1984,water was believed to have
    entered a side pipe the introduction of water into the tank subsequently resulted in
    a runway exothermic reaction, which was accelerated by contaminants high
    ambient temperatures and various other factors
    • A UCIL employee triggered the plant’s alarm system at 12:50am as the
    concentration of gas in and around the plant became difficult to tolerate.
    • The MIC gas tank emanating from tank E610 petered out at approximately
    2:00am fifteen minutes later , the plants public siren was sounded for an extended
    period of time
    EFFECTS
    • The initial effects of exposure were coughing ,severe eye irritation and a
    feelings of suffocation burning in the respiratory tract , breathlessness ,
    stomach pains and vomiting.
    • Thousands of people had died by the following morning apart from MIC
    based on laboratory simulation conditions , the gas cloud most likely also
    contained chloroform, dichloromethane , hydrogen chloride , methyl
    amine, dimethylamine, trimethylamine and carbon dioxide
    WARREN ANDERSON
    • In the immediate aftermath , the plant was closed to
    outsiders (including UCC) by the India government ,the
    UCC chairman and CEO warren Anderson ,together
    with a technical team ,immediately traveled to India
    • Upon arrival Anderson was placed under house arrest
    and urged by the India government to leave the country
    within 24 hours
    • Warren Anderson died in 2014.
    THANK YOU

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