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chemical disaster, the accidental release of a quantity of toxic chemicals into the environment, resulting in death or injury to workers or members of nearby communities. Examples include the mercury waste poisoning of fish, resulting in 111 human deaths at Minamata, Japan; the release of methyl isocyanate from a chemical plant in Bhopal, India, at a cost of 2000 lives; and a nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, requiring the removal of 160,000 people from their homes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Others, lamps that come with stylized glazed animals perched atop a container, incorporate miniature scenes using people: men cruising for sex in a public park and a nuclear or chemical disaster during which a naked woman in a gully is blasted by lights of different colors. In defense of the new regulations, Congress harkens back to a 1984 chemical disaster in India in which 3,800 were killed. It is paying a fine of $50m - the largest ever levied under the US Clean Air Act, which was passed in response to the Bhopal chemical disaster in India in 1984. |
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