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Bhopal
Disaster
By Alicia and Alex

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03 What happened?

04 The aftermath

Contents 05 Why we chose this topic

06 What should have been done differently

07 Quiz
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At the start of December of 1984, about 45

tons of the gas methyl isocyanate escaped
from a plant owned by the based Union

What Carbide Corporation.

Later, it was established that the disaster

happened? happened because of the substandard

operating and safety procedures and the
understaffed plant.

The toxic waste had reached more than 40

areas in Bhopal and was still spreading by
December of 2019.

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The aftermath of
the disaster
The tragedy of Bhopal An estimated 15,000 to
continues to be a 20,000 people died as a
warning sign at once result of the Bhopal disaster,
ignored and heeded. and some 500,000 survivors
Bhopal and its suffered respiratory
aftermath were a problems, blindness, and
warning that the path other health problems. In
to industrialization, 2010 several former
for developing executives of the company
countries in general. that operated the Bhopal
plant—all Indian citizens—
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were convicted of negligence.
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Why we chose this topic

The reason why chose this topic is because we wanted to
show people what happens when a company like Union
Carbide chooses profit over safety. We thought that this
was a terrible disaster but an interesting topic to talk
about.
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should have We think that the disaster could have

been avoided if the company had
followed the safety procedures
been done correctly, if they had invested in
better equipment and if there were

differently more people working in that plant.

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Quiz
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Union Carbide Who was

responsible for
Sinopec
the disaster?
Formosa Plastics
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Union Carbide Who was

responsible for
Sinopec
the disaster?
Formosa Plastics
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More than a 100,000 How many

people died
40 to 60,000 people
during the
15 to 20,000 people
disaster?
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More than a 100,000 How many

people died
40 to 60,000 people
during the
15 to 20,000 people
disaster?
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Methyl Chloride What type of

gas was
Methyl Isocyanate
released?
Hydrogen Sulfide
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Methyl Chloride What type of

gas was
Methyl Isocyanate
released?
Hydrogen Sulfide
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Thank you
for your
attention!