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Seveso Dioxin Cloud
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Consequences:
The Disaster
- Chloracne- a persistent and disfiguring skin disease, with loss of muscular strength and psychological distrurbances especially in children
- abort their fetus out of fear of congenital malformations.
- Consumption of all local produce was banned.
- Destruction of cornfields and vegetable gardens.
- chemical reaction producing trichlorophenol (TCP) was left unfinished and uncooled.
- The chemicals heated up spontaneously and blew safety valves in the reactor resulted due to the absense of water.
- Small cloud rising above the factory
Seveso Dioxin Cloud
Location
- Seveso, Northern Italy
- July 10,1976
- ICMESA chemical plant was located.
- New way of making trichlorophenol, the essential raw material of an antibiotic,
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History for Pollution:
- The stench was often unbearable and its workers were shunned in bars and cafes because.
- The waste from the processes was simply buried, burnt on rubbish dumps or poured into the Certesa,
- The company produced a proposal for a project known as DAGH, which consisted of a water treatment plant and an incinerator for burning residues including phenolic wastes
Works Cited
- http://varenya.hubpages.com/hub/Seveso-man-made-disaster#
- http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1986457_1986501_1986449,00.html
- http://bryant2.bryant.edu/~aboggio/boggio_seveso.pdf
"Man-Made" Disaster
Anjali Ramani
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