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Bhopal disaster 80s
Carbide factory in Bhopal, India.
In 1984, the year of reaction occurred with 42 tons of methyl isocyanate, the temperature and pressure have risen so much that the air began to come out huge amounts of gas containing methyl isocyanate, phosgene, hydrogen cyanide and other chemicals. Poisonous cloud last in the neighboring territories of sleeping residents awoke on feeling the heat in the throat and eyes. As a result, only in the early hours killed about 4000 people. Over the next few years, the consequences more than tripled the number - about 15 000. A quarter-century later, thousands of people are still suffering from the consequences of the world's largest man-made disaster and pollution. In 2001 the plant «Union Carbide» bought the company «Dow Chemical», which states that a court case was decided in 1989. Responsibility for the still ongoing cleanup took over the local government ...
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1. A police officer points to the petrol tank, from which in 1984 was leaked contents into the atmosphere, on the site of the former plant «Union Carbide» November 28, 2009 in Bhopal, India. 25 years after the gas leak at the plant «Union Carbide», due to which several thousand people died, toxic substances, "the largest man-made disaster in the world" continues to be detrimental to the residents of Bhopal. A new generation is growing weak, sick. The consequences of the disaster have only recently begun to affect the next generation, appearing visually. (Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images)
2. At the old pictures from December 4, 1984, you can see the soldiers guarding the entrance to the plant «Union Carbide» in Bhopal after the deadly leak of toxic gas. Survivors of the world's largest man-made disaster were shocked to learn that a former plant that killed thousands of people, planned to open to the public 25 years later. These plans never materialized. (BEDI / AFP / Getty Images)
3. In this photo from December 4, 1984, you see people blinded as a result of a gas leak at the plant in Bhopal. (AFP / AFP / Getty Images)
4. The victim lost his sight a gas leak at the plant «Union Carbide» in Bhopal 4 December 1984. They wait outside until their doctor examine
5. mechanisms Abandoned Chemical Plant «Union Carbide»
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7. The employee of security rides a bicycle past the remains of the plant «Union Carbide» in Bhopal
8. Discarded bottles of chemicals on the floor of the building on the site of a chemical plant desolate «Union Carbide»
9. In the hole in the wall, you can see the boy, trying to take the calf in the pasture at the plant
10. Women fill containers with clean water in Bhopal, which is brought here, because the local water was contaminated during a gas leak
11. Activists and survivors of the Bhopal disaster in 1984 held up signs at the office of the company «Dow Chemical» in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi on Thursday 19 November, 2009. A subsidiary of US chemical company «Union Carbide» plant manager during the incident. For decades, the survivors are struggling for the demolition of the plant, but their efforts ran into difficulties when the plant «Union Carbide» acquired company «Dow Chemical Co.» in 2001. The company says it is not responsible for the demolition of the plant and disaster relief.
12. Activists of the group of survivors in Bhopal disaster burn an effigy during a protest against the company «Union Carbide Corp» before the 25th anniversary of the 1984 disaster in Bhopal
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14. A police officer inspects an abandoned factory «Union Carbide»
15. People walk past the statue of a mother with a dead child in her arms in Bhopal November 18, 2009. Residents of the city are watching with bitterness toward the old factory «Union Carbide», where the morning of December 3, 1984 a gas leak occurs in a flash killed thousands of people. Residents say that every anniversary - this is another year of physical and psychological trauma complicated by the negligence of the government and the companies.
16. Nafisa Bi - coordinator of the clinic «Chingari Trust» - carries a 8-year old Anna. 25 years after the gas leak that caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people, the consequences of the world's largest man-made disasters continue to harm the residents of Bhopal. Annan suffers from cerebral palsy and treated in the clinic «Chingari Trust».
17. Mentally retarded 10-year-old Nawab Mian - a victim of the disaster in 1984 - playing with chicken near the abandoned factory
18. Apeksha Mulvey eats at home in Bhopal. 25 years after the man-made disaster, many mothers have given birth to physically and mentally disabled children.
19. Children are reflected in contaminated groundwater near the abandoned factory «Union Carbide»
20. In this photo taken on November 21, 2009, a photographer captured the cow. She found one in a government hospital, gave to the victims of the gas leak at the plant in Bhopal
21. People are containers with water collected on the territory of the former factory
22. Women complaining of ailments related to the Bhopal disaster waiting in the queue to see a doctor at the clinic NGO
23. Raziq says words during exercises with speech therapist Prem Patel in rehab «Chingari Trust»
24. Hira Lal, who has lost the ability to move and hear, lying on a makeshift bed at his hut
25. Children play at their homes near the plant «Union Carbide»
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27. The physiotherapist holds the leg 7-year-old child in the clinic NGO for victims of man-made disaster in Bhopal
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In 1984, the year of reaction occurred with 42 tons of methyl isocyanate, the temperature and pressure have risen so much that the air began to come out huge amounts of gas containing methyl isocyanate, phosgene, hydrogen cyanide and other chemicals. Poisonous cloud last in the neighboring territories of sleeping residents awoke on feeling the heat in the throat and eyes. As a result, only in the early hours killed about 4000 people. Over the next few years, the consequences more than tripled the number - about 15 000. A quarter-century later, thousands of people are still suffering from the consequences of the world's largest man-made disaster and pollution. In 2001 the plant «Union Carbide» bought the company «Dow Chemical», which states that a court case was decided in 1989. Responsibility for the still ongoing cleanup took over the local government ...
28 ph effects via Bigpicture
1. A police officer points to the petrol tank, from which in 1984 was leaked contents into the atmosphere, on the site of the former plant «Union Carbide» November 28, 2009 in Bhopal, India. 25 years after the gas leak at the plant «Union Carbide», due to which several thousand people died, toxic substances, "the largest man-made disaster in the world" continues to be detrimental to the residents of Bhopal. A new generation is growing weak, sick. The consequences of the disaster have only recently begun to affect the next generation, appearing visually. (Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images)
2. At the old pictures from December 4, 1984, you can see the soldiers guarding the entrance to the plant «Union Carbide» in Bhopal after the deadly leak of toxic gas. Survivors of the world's largest man-made disaster were shocked to learn that a former plant that killed thousands of people, planned to open to the public 25 years later. These plans never materialized. (BEDI / AFP / Getty Images)
3. In this photo from December 4, 1984, you see people blinded as a result of a gas leak at the plant in Bhopal. (AFP / AFP / Getty Images)
4. The victim lost his sight a gas leak at the plant «Union Carbide» in Bhopal 4 December 1984. They wait outside until their doctor examine
5. mechanisms Abandoned Chemical Plant «Union Carbide»
6.
7. The employee of security rides a bicycle past the remains of the plant «Union Carbide» in Bhopal
8. Discarded bottles of chemicals on the floor of the building on the site of a chemical plant desolate «Union Carbide»
9. In the hole in the wall, you can see the boy, trying to take the calf in the pasture at the plant
10. Women fill containers with clean water in Bhopal, which is brought here, because the local water was contaminated during a gas leak
11. Activists and survivors of the Bhopal disaster in 1984 held up signs at the office of the company «Dow Chemical» in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi on Thursday 19 November, 2009. A subsidiary of US chemical company «Union Carbide» plant manager during the incident. For decades, the survivors are struggling for the demolition of the plant, but their efforts ran into difficulties when the plant «Union Carbide» acquired company «Dow Chemical Co.» in 2001. The company says it is not responsible for the demolition of the plant and disaster relief.
12. Activists of the group of survivors in Bhopal disaster burn an effigy during a protest against the company «Union Carbide Corp» before the 25th anniversary of the 1984 disaster in Bhopal
13.
14. A police officer inspects an abandoned factory «Union Carbide»
15. People walk past the statue of a mother with a dead child in her arms in Bhopal November 18, 2009. Residents of the city are watching with bitterness toward the old factory «Union Carbide», where the morning of December 3, 1984 a gas leak occurs in a flash killed thousands of people. Residents say that every anniversary - this is another year of physical and psychological trauma complicated by the negligence of the government and the companies.
16. Nafisa Bi - coordinator of the clinic «Chingari Trust» - carries a 8-year old Anna. 25 years after the gas leak that caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people, the consequences of the world's largest man-made disasters continue to harm the residents of Bhopal. Annan suffers from cerebral palsy and treated in the clinic «Chingari Trust».
17. Mentally retarded 10-year-old Nawab Mian - a victim of the disaster in 1984 - playing with chicken near the abandoned factory
18. Apeksha Mulvey eats at home in Bhopal. 25 years after the man-made disaster, many mothers have given birth to physically and mentally disabled children.
19. Children are reflected in contaminated groundwater near the abandoned factory «Union Carbide»
20. In this photo taken on November 21, 2009, a photographer captured the cow. She found one in a government hospital, gave to the victims of the gas leak at the plant in Bhopal
21. People are containers with water collected on the territory of the former factory
22. Women complaining of ailments related to the Bhopal disaster waiting in the queue to see a doctor at the clinic NGO
23. Raziq says words during exercises with speech therapist Prem Patel in rehab «Chingari Trust»
24. Hira Lal, who has lost the ability to move and hear, lying on a makeshift bed at his hut
25. Children play at their homes near the plant «Union Carbide»
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27. The physiotherapist holds the leg 7-year-old child in the clinic NGO for victims of man-made disaster in Bhopal
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