One of many accidents in chemical industry in Pancevo,Serbia

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In the last year, citizens of Pancevo, have had to stay at their homes, close their windows until sirens inform them that chemical hazard is passed, about 8 times..Last case of chemical accident in chemical zone in "Azotara", was yesterday when HNO3 evaporated in atmospher and concetration was 5 times bigger then it is allowed....Beside HNO3 and NH3, petrohemy and rafinery are contaminating Pancevo and it's enviroment with H2S(hidrogen di sulfid),(NO)x(natrium oxids),SO2(sulfur dioxid),NO,NO2,NH3 more then 30 years...To know real situation,about pollution and healthy issues of citizens of Pancevo,one must be informed first with consequences of bombing..Here it is:"The industrial complex next to the town of Pancevo (population 150,000) is located 15 kilometres northeast of Belgrade. The complex includes a fertiliser processing plant, oil refinery, petrochemical plant and a vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant among others. Residential buildings are 150 meters away.
The plants store volumes of ethylene-dichloride (EDC), ethylene, chlorine, chlorine-hydrogen, propylene and vinyl chloride monomers. During NATO attacks on April 18, these fluids were released into the atmosphere, water and soil and now pose a serious threat to human health, local ecological systems and the broader Balkan region. According to Yugoslav estimates, some 70,000 people were endangered locally - poisoned, injured and/or evacuated. Many dead fish were observed 30 kilometres downstream of Pancevo where fishing was forbidden.
It is estimated that 1,400 tonnes of EDC were released directly into the Danube River. According to BBC News, workers at the complex decided to release tons of carcinogenic EDC into the Danube to avoid an explosion. Some 3,000 tonnes of a 40 percent solution of natrium hydroxide and 1,000 tonnes of a 33 percent solution of hydrogen chloride leaked into the Danube. Tonnes of liquid chlorine were released, as was toxic chlorine gas after bombing.
Mercury was probably released after destruction of the chlorine-alkaline electrolysis plant where some 100 tonnes of mercury were stored. Fifty tonnes of oil emulsion and more than 100 tonnes of liquid ammonia also leaked into the Danube.
Polluted clouds created by the bombing carried the products of combustion of VCMs (phosgene, chlorine, chlorine oxides and nitrogen oxides) as well as ammonia, petroleum and petroleum products. The Pancevo VCM plant was completely destroyed and more than 1,000 tonnes of VCM were released. This plant burned for hours, creating a whitish smoke that moved westwards toward Belgrade. The cloud was carried by low air currents and merged with another cloud formed when a storehouse full of fertiliser was hit.
The Times of London quoted the Yugoslav environment minister as saying the amount of carcinogenic matter in the air over Pancevo was 7,200 times above permitted levels. According to a press release from Belgrade's Institute of Public Health, a VCM concentration of 10,600 times above permitted levels was recorded near Pancevo."...Pancevo is one of the most pollutated towns in Europe and town with the biggest number of cancer cases in NE Europe...Greenpeace,anyone?!?Help?
p.s. Monolith, now you are going to see that i wasn't joking when i said to you that you can see and smell the air in my town