Nine days later, the judge Richard Adjei Frimpong dismissed a motion by the Argentine state to free the vessel on the grounds that it counted with diplomatic immunity, according to AFP.
As many as 1, 500 residents of the northern Illinois city of Marseilles were evacuated after seven barges broke free from a towing vessel and struck a dam on the Illinois River.
The third mistake was that, because the workers were allowed to bypass the time-consuming mixing process in the tower, with its automatic controls for preventing such things happening, they were free to dump their material into a vessel that was not designed to prevent the accumulation of a critical mass sufficient to support a chain reaction.