Moscow: As if things in Russia were not looking sufficiently apocalyptic already, with 100-degree temperatures and noxious fumes rolling in from burning peat bogs and forests, there is growing alarm here that fires in regions coated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago could now be emitting plumes of radioactive smoke. Several fires have been documented i
After more than two months of the source of exposure of radioactive substance Cobalt-60 being traced to the Chemistry laboratory of Delhi University (DU), the university authorities have woken up and are now about to come up with a laboratory manual.
LUCKNOW: A team of experts from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) visited Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Thursday and laid to rest the raging controversy over a feared radioactive leak in the campus and the adjacent residential colonies in the town.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Union Government to inform it of what mechanism it had put in place to screen radioactive material, if any, brought into the country along with scrap imported from foreign countries.
The absence of any systematic study by Indian or foreign scientists has left sufficient room for wide and wild speculation on the probable causes of high incidence of cancer in parts of Punjab
To prevent recurrence of any Mayapuri-type radiation leak, the Delhi Government will soon procure sophisticated equipment to scan vulnerable areas where such exposure may take place.
Amritsar: Had the government acted on a Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) report released in 1995, confirming presence of uranium and other heavy metals beyond permissible limits in water samples collected from Bathinda, preventive measures could have been put in place. This is what a GNDU team leader, who has carried out extensive research in this field, had to say.
