Was Carrying Cobalt-60 Pin Given To Him By First Victim
New Delhi: Eight days after six people landed in hospital with severe health complications following exposure to radioactive radiation in Mayapuri junk market, another scrap dealer has been admitted at Max Hospital in Pitampura with similar symptoms.
The Delhi gov ernment on Friday directed the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to submit a report on the scrap dealers dealing with hazardous material and the sources from where they get the scrap within two weeks.
NEW DELHI: The waste imported to the Capital will have to go through a tighter sieve now with the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) having decided to seek the Customs Department's intervention to ensure that radioactive waste does not find its way into the public domain again endangering the lives of people.
A team of experts scanned over 800 shops in Mayapuri scrap market in West Delhi where 10 sources of Cobalt-60 have been recovered in the recent past, leaving seven exposed to radiation.
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will form a committee with officials from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) to conduct a feasibility study on desalination as an option to end the city
New Delhi: Just as the scrap market at Mayapuri was returning to normalcy after radioactive cobalt-60 exposed six people to radiation there, the monitoring agencies claimed on Tuesday they had found another source of radiation
NEW DELHI: One more suspected source of radiation has been detected in the sprawling scrap market at Mayapuri here in the Capital where two scrap dealers and five workers were taken ill this past week after being exposed to Cobalt-60 radioactive isotope.
PREETI KARMYOGI NEW DELHI A team of nuclear April 13: A team of nuclear experts visiting Mayapuri scrap market, where Cobalt 60 radiation was reported on Friday, discovered one more source of radiation on Tuesday. However, they said that intensity of the emission was very low and it may be a residue of the earlier sources.
A scrap dealer in Delhi and five of his em ployees were seriously injured when they came into contact with radioactive waste material. They are now in a critical condition with their bone marrow impaired and blood platelet count dropping to dangerous levels. Only when the dealer is in a position to talk will the authorities know from where he procured the waste material.
