nuclear-news

Radioactivity in India – lax anti-pollution measures

Anti-pollution laws only on paper in Punjab’, The Times of India, 15 June 2010, “…….. In Muktsar, the home district of Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal, a state health department survey revealed that 1,074 people died of cancer between 2001 and November 2009 and 668 others are on their deathbed.

In Lambi, the home constituency of Badal, 211 residents lost their lives and 164 got afflicted with cancer in the last eight years, revealed health department survey report.

On Sunday, Germany’s Microtrace Mineral Lab had revealed high levels of uranium in hair samples of mentally-retarded children in Malwa region.

“The hair results are surprising. We expected an arsenic exposure. Instead, over 80% of adult and children, many of which are suffering from cerebral palsy and mental retardation, showed pathological levels for uranium,” said Dr Carin Smit, a South African toxicologist who had sent the samples to the German laboratory in March 2009…………..
A report filed by V D Puranik, head of the environmental assessment division, Bhaba Atomic Research Center, about a year ago, had revealed the uranium content in water sample in the Malwa in the range of 2.2-244.2 micro grams per litre while WHOs safe limit is 15 microgram per litre.

“Three samples exceeded the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) limit for uranium in drinking water of 60 micrograms per litre,” said Pritpal Singh, incharge of Baba Farid Center for Special Children in Faridkot.

‘Anti-pollution laws only on paper in Punjab’ – India – The Times of India

June 15, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, India | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium