Question: when you think of a significant industrial disaster, or say the worst industrial disaster does Bhopal come to your mind ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Among the many tragedies of Bhopal one id that it has very little mind share. Except for the affected of course.
Here is an anecdote that I learned from a friend of mine who is Bulgarian. Fish markets there make it a point to tell you that their fish isn't fresh. Their major water body is the Black sea and rivers have been driving Chernobyl effluents into it. Fishes concentrate the poisons in their system. So fish, unless it is imported, is considered unsafe.
Edit: Heard in 2004 and he was living in the US then.