Britain settlement

The catastrophe raised very serious ethical issues. The pesticide factory was built in the midst of densely populated settlements. UCIL chose to store and produce MIC, a very toxic and even deadly chemical (permitted exposure levels in the US and Britain are 0.02 parts per million), in an area where nearly 120,000 people Uved. The MIC plant was not designed to handle a runaway reaction. When the uncontrolled reaction started, MIC was flowing through the scrubber (intended for neutralizing the MIC emissions) at more than 200 times the designed capacity. 

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