We all know what the world's worst industrial disaster was: the gas leak from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in central India.

众所周知，发生在印度中部城市博帕尔市的天然气泄漏事件，当属世界上最严重的工业惨案。造成此案的是联合碳化物公司于当地所开办的工厂。

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In 1984, then-CEO of Union Carbide Warren Anderson immediately hopped on a plane to India after a poison gas leak at one of the company's plants in Bhopal.

1984年，美国联合碳化物公司（Union Carbide）位于印度博帕尔市的工厂发生毒气泄露事件，时任CEO瓦伦•安德森立即跳上飞机赶赴印度。

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Around midnight on Dec. 2, 1984, an accident at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, resulted in 45 tons of poisonous methyl isocyanate escaping from the facility.

1984年12月2日午夜，位于印度博帕尔的联合碳化物公司的农药厂发生事故，导致45吨的有毒异氰酸甲酯从设备中泄露。

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Critics and opposition parties say the government must draw lessons from the Bhopal disaster and modify the controversial Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill to ensure that India will be able to hold private companies responsible for any mishap.

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He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, India, established to help heal people affected by the Bhopal gas tragedy.

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In 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed nearly 4, 500 people.

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It was signed into law by former President Ronald Reagan after the infamous Union Carbide pesticide factory gas leak in Bhopal, India.

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