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India’s uranium radioactivity hotspot

Uranium, metals make Punjab toxic hotspot,  The Times of India. Balwant Garg, TNN, Jun 15, 2010, BATHINDA: After discovery of high levels of uranium in hair samples of a large number of mentally retarded children in Punjab’s Malwa region last year, another study suggests Punjab has become a hotspot of environmental toxicity of multiple types……….. The adverse health effects on plants, animals and humans are visible and some of the studies have proved this. “It’s clear that Punjab is in a deep ecological crisis with its ramifications on socio-economic and cultural aspects of its population,” said Dr Reyes Tirado, a scientist from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, who conducted the study in 50 villages in Muktsar, Bathinda and Ludhiana districts last year under a Greenpeace Research Laboratories investigation.

Uranium, metals make Punjab toxic hotspot – India – The Times of India

June 15, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, India | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, reactors, uranium