Disaster Spills Across Bhopal

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but by then it was too late. At 12:56 a.m., the morning of December 3rd, a faulty valve ruptured, allowing the deadly gas to escape into the atmosphere and cause a huge vapor puff to fall onto silent, sleeping Bhopal (Cush, 30).
Before the release of 40 tons of MIC, Bhopal was a prospering city. The population was growing to about 700,000 people. In India large corporations were encouraged to build there to bring more jobs to the community and raise the economy. So when Union Carbide built their plant in the middle of heavy slums and shantytowns, they were welcomed with open arms.
In the seven years the plant was running, it experienced six small accidents, and still had no safety plan in case of an emergency. To prevent the seventh accident from happening there were two safety devices, but they both broke down. The first machine, called a scrubber, was supposed to contain the highly toxic gas by adding another chemical to neutralize it. Rumor was that it couldn’t contain ...

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