LUCKNOW: Could NBRI be dumping radioactive waste in Gomti directly through its sewage system? Knowing that radioactive material can induce cancer, birth defects and infertility in humans directly exposed to it, releasing it in Gomti is a huge big ecological disaster.

BS Reporter / New Delhi March 2, 2009, 1:04 IST

The government is planning stricter norms for import of steel scrap. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade, the nodal agency for foreign trade matters, is expected to issue a notification this week that will make it mandatory for importers to furnish proof that imported consignments have no traces of radioactivity.

Indian steel exporters are worried about its adverse consequences.

Vaiju Naravane

Arun Oskar | Nagercoil,
THE mining and processing of beach sand along the coastal villages near Manavalakkurichi could fetch foreign exchange for India, but contributes definitely to a little known fact that people in this region are affected by deadly diseases such as cancer and mental retardation.

Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata
Checks for radiation may become mandatory for metal scrap if the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has its way.

A member of Medical Association for Prevention of War, Australia, Tilman Alfred Ruff today visited Dungridih village in East Singhbhum that witnessed spilling of radioactive waste due to a leakage in the pipeline that carries it to the tailing pond of Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL).

Bloomberg / Vienna/new Delhi November 12, 2008, 0:05 IST
French authorities made headlines last month when they said as many as 500 sets of radioactive buttons had been installed in elevators around the country. It wasn't an isolated case.

The French government on Thursday ordered an investigation into the water table around all of France's 58 nuclear reactors in an effort to dispel fears raised by a leak from a treatment plant run by Areva in southern France.

Jean-Louis Borloo, ecology minister, has asked an independent committee to carry out the probe to stem mounting public concern over nuclear waste management after a low-grade leak at the Socatri treatment plant at Tricastin focused public attention on a still unexplained, older contamination of the water table.