R. Ramachandran

New Delhi: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has identified and accounted for all the cobalt-60 radioactive sources originally present in the gamma cell irradiator of the Chemistry Department of Delhi University.

TURA, May 2

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to immediately frame guidelines for procurement, transport, storage and disposal or all hazardous material, including chemicals and radioactive substances, used for research in universities.

New Delhi: Making it clear that research in universities would go on, HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Friday asked the University Grants Commission to immediately frame guidelines on procurement, transport, storage and disposal of radioactive material for research.

GUWAHATI: The National Board for Wild Life (NBWL) has decided to undertake a site inspection of the uranium deposit in Balpakram National Park in the State in response to the proposal submitted by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to de-notify an area of 8 square kilometers at Rongcheng Plateau in Balpakram National Park for exploratory uranium mining.

The National Board of Wild Life (NBWL) has decided to conduct a site inspection in response to the proposal from Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to de-notify an area of 8 sq km at Rongcheng Plateau in Balpakram National Park in Meghalaya for exploratory uranium mining even as protests have been raging in the hill state over bid to tap uranium deposit in the area.

But Says All Preventive Steps Have Been Taken And Radiation Levels Are Receding

A proposal for an exploratory drilling at a newly-surveyed uranium site inside the Balpakram National Park (BNP), in South Garo hills of Meghalaya, has raised the hackles of wildlife and conservation groups in the State.

After being alerted by the DAE, the IAEA will turn to the Nuclear Suppli- er Group. All these agencies will help trace the source from where the Cobalt 60 emanat- ed.
RASHME SEHGAL The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the Mayapuri radiation leak caused by gamma rays emanating from Cobalt 60 that left five people critically ill.

It is highly unlikely that cobalt 60, the radioactive isotope that made it to a scrap dealer

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