Bhopal Disaster

In the 1970s, the Indian government encouraged foreign companies to invest in local industry..

Widespread crop failures and famine on the subcontinent in the 1980s led to increased indebtedness and decreased capital for farmers to invest in pesticides..

The local government was aware of safety problems but was reticent to place heavy industrial safety and pollution control burdens on the struggling industry because it feared the economic effects of the loss of such a large employer..

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Within hours, the streets of Bhopal were littered with human corpses and dead buffaloes, cows , dogs and birds. An estimated 3,800 people died immediately, mostly in the poor slum colony adjacent to the UC plant . It became one of the worst chemical disasters in history and the name Bhopal became synonymous with industrial catastrophe..

The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of: flawed Soviet reactor design serious mistakes made by the plant operators It was a direct consequence of Cold War isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture..

Reactor 4 has been operating for 2 years.. The crew was planning to test whether the turbine could produce, sufficient energy to keep the coolant pumps running in the event of power loss until energy diesel generator was activated..

The prevailing winds at the time of the accident were from the south and east so much of the radiation plume travelled towards Belarus..

Despite the contamination of the site and the inherent risks, the nuclear plant continued operation until the shutdown in 2000..