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

NEW DELHI: The six victims undergoing treatment after being accidentally exposed to radioactive material in Mayapuri here this past week are still reported to be in a critical condition, according to Delhi Health Minister Dr. Kiran Walia who visited the patients on Sunday.

Rules to govern medical waste largely ignore radioactive matter; agencies pass the buck

The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) have decided to jointly study the presence of high levels of uranium in ground water in the state, reported the cause of abnormally high incidence of cancer. The study would begin within three months.

LAB FIRE: Cops doubt victims died even before they had a chance to scream

An inquiry is being undertaken to investigate the cause of the accident which led to the death of the two research scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc), minister of state for science and technology Prithviraj Chavan said talking exclusively to this paper.

Two research scientists were killed after a fire broke out in a photochemistry laboratory in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, on Tuesday afternoon.

They were identified by the police as Umang Singh from Mumbai and Partha Pratim Bag from West Bengal, both PhD students in BARC

Mumbai: A high intensity explosion at a chemical laboratory inside the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on Tuesday noon claimed the lives of two junior scientists. BARC, however, confirmed that no reactor, radioactivity or radiation was involved in the incident, which took place about a kilometre away from the nuclear reactor.

The major fire that broke out at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre at Trombay on Tuesday afternoon has sparked off fears of a radioactive gas leak, even though Barc has stressed that the explosion happened more than a kilometre away from the two nuclear reactors that are there in the campus.

Access to the reactors is restricted to only a few people.