A megaplant close to the small village of Flixborough, England, is busy churning out a key ingredient of nylon 6, a fabric utilized in all the things from stockings to toothbrushes to electronics. When a reactor vessel fails, the engineers improvise a quick-fix workaround, so the plant can sustain with demand. Earlier than lengthy, the momentary patch – a small, bent pipe – turns into a everlasting a part of the manufacturing unit, and the individuals of Flixborough unknowingly drift in direction of catastrophe.
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Additional studying
The Flixborough catastrophe. Report of the Court docket of Inquiry
Flixborough 1974 Reminiscences. Important eye-witness historical past from the North Lincolnshire Museum.
‘Hearth and devastation’: 50 years on from the Flixborough catastrophe what’s modified? Chemistry World
