Lets Talk about Man Mades Greatest Disasters

[LM-R]

Lets talk about great man made disasters.
Ill get the ball rolling with a few nuclear related ones. I am going to post some Wikipedia links to the actual disasters and you can research whichever you like :)
Feel free to add.

First up the Infamous

Chernobyl disaster

Basically the misuse of nuclear power and not looking after it properly, Putting much of Europe at risk in the process.
There is many a documentary made on this sad avoidable disaster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

Next is

Three Mile Island accident

Well known aswell especially in USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident


Lets go with a lesser known one now.

Goiânia accident

What a sad series of events to this disaster just because of government arguing and people not being educated :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident


This next ones not so much a disaster but had big potential.

The Radioactive Boy Scout

Boyscout making nuclear reactor at home. David Hahn you should read the link then Google a pic of him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn


Next is also a popular one thank to the movie made about it.

Soviet submarine K-19

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-19

Next is one of the founders of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Peace prizes in physics and chemistry. Sadly died from not knowing what it can do to you.

Marie Curie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_curie

Next is SL-1

A US Army exerimental Reactor that was build very crap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1


Next is these two guys who were working on the Manhattan project at Los Alamos

Harry K. Daghlian, Jr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_K._Daghlian,_Jr

and

Louis Slotin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin

and

Last for now is

The Radium Girls

How wrong is it for these poor women go through that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

[58andfixed]

Thanks LM-R:

I could see this building into a monster thread. :(

1948 Donora smog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Donora_smog

"..a historic air inversion resulting in a wall of smog that killed 20 people and sickened 7,000 more in Donora, Pennsylvania, a mill town on the Monongahela River, 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Pittsburgh."

Bhopal disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

".. the world's worst industrial catastrophe. It occurred on the night of December 2–3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India."

"A leak of methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals from the plant resulted in the exposure of hundreds of thousands of people. Estimates vary on the death toll."

"The official immediate death toll was 2,259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release."

A sad addition to a sad albeit necessary thread.

- 58

[LM-R]

Thanks 58andfixed ,Yes was going to add Bhopal later on. I do hope people take the time to have a read, many people my age and younger haven't even heard of Chernobyl which is just shocking.

also

Unit 731

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

And the atrocities they did.


The one which stuck with me most was the Goiânia incident, very tragic

[LM-R]

A sad one that we all contribute to daily some way or another is

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

328-foot wide hole in the ground which has been on fire, continuously, for nearly forty years.

Derweze The "Door to Hell" gas deposit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derweze

[shybastid]

Not a HAPPY thread to be sure. Should we not forget?
Agreed.
I could add additional man made disapointments,and yes,we must be reminded of the mistakes of the past to move forward, and not forget the past mistakes...but I personally hate being reminded.
Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for reminding all of us how we need to do/be better.

[LM-R]

Yes shybastid, its not a happy thread, though it was just amazing when i was asking young people if they had herd of "Chernobyl" and the answer was usually "heard of what". This thread is hopefully to be seen as an educational thread, that as you said reminds us of our mistakes and hopefully with some knowledge we don't let them happen again.

[shybastid]

I think PETA should be informed of animal cruelty too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9xq-TVyHI

The dog is smiling too much. That a crime?

[Whitehaze]

Interesting topic, I was wondering something. Could the current state of the world itself be considered a manmade disaster? hmmmmmm

[ghostrider]

Hiding or telling lies about the human origin, and the E T involvement with the human race is what I consider the greatest man made disaster... hiding behind the phrase - in the interest of national security-

[LM-R]

The Centralia Underground Coal Fire

A whole zip code revoked and town condemned due to a under ground coal fire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania



Jilin chemical plant explosions

Petrochemical plant explodes in China in 2005

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilin_chemical_plant_explosions_2005