< ! -- Deleted image removed : On December 3 , 2004 , the twentieth anniversary of the Bhopal disaster , Andy Bichlbaum appeared on BBC World as " Jude Finisterra " , a Dow Chemical spokesman . Dow is the owner of Union Carbide , the company responsible for the chemical disaster in Bhopal , India on December 3 , 1984 . An estimated 3,800 people died immediately from the hazardous chemicals and thousands more were killed by the plume from the UCC plant during the next few days . The Indian government reported that more than half a million people were exposed to the gas , leading to numerous early and late health defects . The Bhopal Disaster became one of the worst chemical disasters in history and the name Bhopal became synonymous with industrial catastrophe . Immediately after the disaster , UCC began attempts to dissociate itself from responsibility for the gas leak . The Indian Supreme Court eventually mediated a settlement in which UCC accepted moral responsibility and agreed to pay $ 470 million to the Indian government to be distributed to claimants as a full and final settlement . The average amount to families of the dead was $ 2,200
Bhopal disaster
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