A Brief History of: The Seveso disaster (Short Documentary)

#Seveso #Dioxin
The chemical Trichlorophenol has multiple uses from fungicide to antiseptic and even hexachlorophene creation.

The manufacture of this chemical compound involves many deadly chemicals, one of which Dioxin, which would plague a small town in Italy called Seveso.

The mess up at the ICMESA plant would change EU legislation getting the name the Seveso Directive.

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[Somestupiedbudee]

I'm pretty sure your entire channel can be used as a nuclear/chemical engineering ethics class, good stuff

[clarkjanes]

"So where does that rupture pipe go?"
"Oh outside. You do NOT want to be exposed to that stuff."

[dankdungeon]

The company only admitted to releasing deadly chemicals 10 DAYS later. That is criminal and they should have been punished harsly.

[testohtoby]

Me: "Yee my Country cited in this channel !!!"
Also me: "Oh...my Country cited in this channel..."

[ThisFinalHandle]

I've watched enough of these now to spot a defining common denominator to all these accidents: that one faceless guy in the lab coat shows up in most of them. I'm not even sure he's a real scientist???

[Ulrich.Bierwisch]

The story of the barrels with the toxic waste from the reactor is interesting too. They where put on trucks, went into France and got lost. Most likely someone had the idea to dump them some where for lower cost instead of burn the stuff at high temperatures in special facilities to destroy the dioxin properly. It took a big search and month of time to find them.

[Eytaris]

I might add that the Seveso disaster led to the EU creating a set of directives named after the disaster. It consist of rules to limit the risks around sites that store dangerous chemicals, such as emergency plans, urbanization directives, frequent inspections of the stored materials and the processes that used them.

[DocSineBell]

The disaster of Seveso is now extensively used in Italy as example of what could happen if someone screws up a chemical plant in University courses. I think it was shown to me at least in 3 or 4 different times in different courses in my chemistry studies. Usually professors spend some time also showing the effects of chloracne and how awfully bad the disease is, especially on children. Just to make sure no one forgets.

[Monothefox]

3:00 "This will become apparent later in our story." I feel like this could be a secondary name for the entire series.

[tidklaas]

The largest population exposed to Dioxin would be the ~1 million Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians whose crops were sprayed with Agent Orange, plus the ~40k US soldiers who were exposed to the stuff while handling it.

[robertl]

Didn't. Have. A. Thermometer.

:O

[RH-xsgz]

Just to give you an idea of how toxic dioxin is, the EPA-mandated maximum contamination level for mercury in drinking water is 0.002 mg/L. The EPA-mandated maximum contamination level of dioxin in drinking water is mg/L.

[drrocketman]

A clarification: our friend #PlainlyDifficult, when he says, "fail safe, " does not mean incapable of failure, rather it means that failure mode causes or ends up in a safe condition; for instance the doors in a prison are electrically operated, but in the event of a power failure they all lock, but can be manually controlled by the staff.
This is in contrast to "fail dangerous" or "fail deadly" such as the inner workings of a nuclear missile, which if tampered with, would detonate parts of the explosives without going critical, so the warhead would be destroyed, along with whoever was tampering with it.

[ste]

"but its METAdioxin....completely different and safe" - Jim Hacker M.P.

[PlainlyDifficult]

My bad on the Molybdenum pronunciation, at least it’s created some chuckles!

[anchorbait]

"Side note" made me smile until I actually saw the photos and heard what the side note was. 😢

[tanithrosenbaum]

As chemist, I gotta say kudos, very excellent research work, and equally excellent and accurate presentation of the chemistry involved!

[Telewaifus]

I'm italian and my parents remember this. This factory was about 50 miles from our home.

[thejudgmentalcat]

At first I thought you said "245 trioxin" which is the zombie chemical from "Return of the Living Dead"

Imagine my surprise

[flyingdutchmanforge]

I LOVE YES MINISTER (from the U.S. here). That is also one of my favorite episodes!!