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.
The standing committee of the MCD on Thursday passed a resolution suggesting installation of radiation detecting devices on all the border points to prevent radioactive substances from entering the city.
New Delhi: In what substantially raises the danger of accidental radiation exposure at the Mayapuri junk market, nuclear experts combing the area on Wednesday detected two new sources of the radioactive material, cobalt-60, at a shop at least one kilometre away from the site where the hazardous metal was found earlier.
The Delhi Municipal Act, which was enact- ed in 1957, has no provision to deal with e-waste and nuclear waste. There is no law on disposal of such waste.
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
Days after a radiation leak at a scrap shop in West Delhi, the Delhi government is preparing to hold a brainstorming session next week to look at how best to recycle the Capital
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.
In the wake of the Mayapuri incident where six persons got seriously injured after getting exposed to a radioactive element, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to form a
