NEW DELHI: Two days after the source of radioactive material that killed one and left several others ill was traced to Delhi University's Chemistry Department, Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental on Friday said the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board team had been requested to investigate all claims pertaining to the presence of radioactive material on the campus.
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.
New Delhi: Professor B K Sharma, who had last used the gamma irradiator in Delhi University 25 years back, said the chemistry department should not have disposed of the instrument in the first place. Speaking to Times City on Friday, 82-year-old B K Sharma said,
New Delhi: Even as Delhi University tried to fend off criticism over the way university handled a gamma irradiator that had cobalt-60 in it, scientists familiar with radioactive material questioned how even basic safety norms were not followed at DU for the past two decades.
NEW DELHI: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has asked the Delhi University authorities to suspend all activities involving use of radiation sources. The directive follows the tracing of a radio-active material that caused the death of a person of a scrap shop and injuries to several others in Mayapuri here to the university's Chemistry Department.
Thirty-five Delhi government doctors are undergoing training in treatment of chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear (CBRN) injuries following Monday
