Disasters - True Stories

By: Studio Minuit
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  • Every day we hear about events that happen in the world. They leave their mark on the minds of all of us, in different ways. There are also disasters, natural or human, that have had a strong impact on the whole world. And that remain in our memories, whether we like it or not. We are going to trace the greatest disasters that the world has known. Shattering events that took place all over the world and that are still talked about.
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  • 12 - The contaminated blood affair, the French state responsible but not guilty - Disasters, True Stories

    12 - The contaminated blood affair, the French state responsible but not guilty - Disasters, True Stories
    Jun 10 2022
    A rare genetic disease known since ancient times, hemophilia affects nearly 8000 French people today. In the 1950s, Dr. Emile Remigy, pushed back the limits of their life expectancy. He developed a treatment, a frozen cryoprecipitate which, once injected into the patient, made up for their lack of coagulant proteins. The industrialization of this product was made possible in France thanks to blood donations, a practice encouraged since 1949, when the National Blood Transfusion Center was created in Paris, which advocates volunteerism, anonymity and non-profit. But what if the State was capable of putting its population at risk for the sake of financial gain? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    13 mins
  • 11 - The collapse of the Morandi bridge, Genoa cut in two - Disasters, True Stories

    11 - The collapse of the Morandi bridge, Genoa cut in two - Disasters, True Stories
    Jun 10 2022
    In 1959 ANAS, or "National Roads Company", organized a contest in Italy to connect two sections of the A10 freeway, nicknamed "the freeway of flowers", over the Polcevera river, to Genoa. The task is not obvious, even turns out to be quite a headache. Who would have thought, 50 years later, that it would lose its footing and collapse like a house of cards? No one did. And yet, there was no lack of warning signs of the disaster... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    12 mins
  • 10 - The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a human catastrophe - Disasters, True Stories

    10 - The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a human catastrophe - Disasters, True Stories
    Jun 10 2022
    Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, at the junction of the Eurasian, Pacific, Philippine and Okhotsk tectonic plates, Japan has always been exposed to high seismic activity. Every year, thousands of tremors, ranging from 4 to 7 on the Richter scale, are felt. Most of them are hardly noticeable, but the most violent ones bring with them devastating tsunamis. The tragedy at Fukushima Daiichi could also be called genpatsu-shinsai: an earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in Japan, rocked a nuclear power plant... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    16 mins

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