A Brief History of:  The Sandoz Chemical Disaster (Short Documentary)
Channel: Documentary Time
Date: 2022-01-26

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The Sandoz Chemical Spill.

In the same year as Chernobyl In November 1986 a fire at the  Sandoz agrochemical storehouse in the Schweizerhalle industrial complex, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland, would show the risks of poor storage of chemicals, in a building not originally designed for this purpose. 

The incident would also show the side effects of such a fire as the water used to fight it would mix with the chemicals stored and run off into the Rhine and contaminate the nearby soil. 

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Sources:
https://www.iksr.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Dokumente_en/Press_Releases/30_Jahre_nach_SANDOZ_Hintergrund.docx_de-DE_en-GB.pdf

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/1/newsid_4679000/4679789.stm

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.500.11850/83154/2/11356_2009_Article_156.pdf

https://www.eawag.ch/en/news-agenda/news-portal/news-detail/der-rhein-rot-die-fische-tot-30-jahre-nach-dem-sandoz-brand/?tx_news_pi1

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Schweizerhalle_fire_and_chemical_spill

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