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Engineering failures · 2-3 December 1984Open article references →
Bhopal Gas Disaster
Former Union Carbide India pesticide plant · India
Why editors use it hereIndexed medical review of acute and chronic health findings after exposure.
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During the night of 2-3 December 1984, a toxic gas cloud escaped from a pesticide plant operated by Union Carbide India Limited in Bhopal.
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Trigger and conditions
Water entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank and initiated a runaway reaction that raised temperature and pressure.
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Uncertainty
Immediate and long-term death estimates vary because registration, diagnosis, migration, and definitions of exposure-related mortality differ.
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Why it matters
Bhopal demonstrates that industrial disasters are built over time through design, maintenance, labor, land use, regulation, and unequal access to information.
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