Pervasive radioactive risks in India
the death of a single person, through disparate chains of official negligence, serves to show that he was not safe. And neither are we.
The radioactive risk society , Indian Express, by Neha Sinha, 3 May 2010, On April 10, 2007, a uranium pipeline burst in Jaduguda, causing a spill of the fuel that keeps our nuclear energy schemes running. Further, adds Half Life, a report on radioactivity in India by environmental group Toxic Links, on August 16, 2008, another uranium pipe burst, spewing houses near the village of Dungridih in Jaduguda with uranium waste. Continue reading
India’s national animal threatened by uranium mining
the danger to India’s national animal – the Royal Bengal Tiger – that is already endangered and has a dwindling population inside the Park.
Opposition to uranium mining gains momentum, The Assam Tribune TURA, May 2 – Opposition to uranium mining inside Balpakram National Park in South Garo Hills is gaining momentum Continue reading
Coolant system failures – bound to happen in Japan’s fast breeder reactors
Japanese fast breeder nuclear reactor malfunctions and worse are ‘inevitable, Nuclear Reaction, 1 May 2010,Coolant system mishap at Japan’s long-stalled Monju fast breeder are “inevitable” in such reactors
‘NEW YORK – The Monju prototype fast breeder nuclear power reactor, which has been gearing up for an early May restart after a 15-year stoppage, suffered a temporary glitch in a coolant leakage detector Tuesday………….. one Japanese nuclear industry source familiar with the Monju project was quoted as saying in Japan Today that malfunctions of this type – and worse – are “inevitable” in such reactors. The government-affiliated agency said the sodium detector, housed in an auxiliary building to the reactor at the Monju centre in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, came to a halt after a fan motor overheated, triggering an alarm at 11:59 p.m. Monday. A fire accompanying a sodium leak shut down the reactor in December 1995, and the project has not been restarted since.’ Nuclear News: Japanese fast breeder nuclear reactor malfunctions and worse are ‘inevitable’ – Nuclear Reaction – A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power
Despite Pakistan’s instability, China to build nuclear reactors there
China to build two nuclear reactors in Pakistan: Report, Hindustan Times, Press Trust Of India Beijing, April 29, 2010 China on Thursday acknowledged that it will build two new nuclear reactors in Pakistan in a deal that could re-ignite concerns about proliferation and safety of atomic materials in Pakistan. Continue reading
Community action brings about stopping of uranium exploration in National Park
Search for uranium deferred, The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata), Shillong, April 29: The Meghalaya government today decided to keep “in abeyance” the proposed exploratory drilling of uranium in Balpakram National Park in South Garo Hills district in view of stiff opposition from various quarters. Continue reading
Source of ionising radiation exposure in India
AERB’s directive to Delhi University on radiation sources The Hindu, 29 April 2010, NEW DELHI: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has asked the Delhi University to suspend all activities involving the use of radiation sources.The directive follows the tracing of a radioactive material that caused the death of a person of a scrap shop and injuries to several others at Mayapuri here to the university’s Chemistry Department.
The Hindu : Front Page : AERB’s directive to Delhi University on radiation sources
VIDEO on India’s radiation victims
At least eight persons involved in the scrap business were exposed to gamma radiation from radioactive cobalt-60 earlier this month after they tried to …U.S.A.’s business interests pushing for India’s Nuclear Liability Bill
The US government has its interest in the Bill as most nuclear firms because of a cap in the US have little business and they see an enormous opportunity at low cost in India.
No good civilian bargain, Central Chronicle – Madhya Pradesh’s News Portal Shivaji Sarka, April 28, 2010A scrap yard has exposed the country’s inability to handle a nuclear radiation hazard. The Mayapuri incident in the country’s capital, Delhi involving a cobalt-60 exposes the inadequacy of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Body and raises doubts about the efficacy of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill (CLND), put off for the present. Continue reading
Citizens rally to save Balpakram National Park from uranium mining
Uranium mining in Balpakram Park opposed, The Assam Tribune Online, TURA, April 28 – The Tura A’chik (Garo) Senior Citizens Forum has opposed the move to mine uranium by denotifying an area of eight square km in Rongcheng plateau of Balpakram National Park.The senior citizens forum in an emergent meeting here attended by members of the Asima Dingsima Rangsaljong Association (ADRA) opposed the move by the Department of Atomic Energy to denotify the area for the proposed uranium mining…. Continue reading
India’s radiation victim dies
Indian Man Dies After Radiation Exposure, New York Times, By JIM YARDLEYPublished: April 27, 2010, NEW DELHI — A man hospitalized for radiation exposure died Monday night from multiple organ failure, the first fatality stemming from a major case of radiation exposure earlier this month that forced authorities to temporarily cordon off an industrial area near the heart of the national capital….. Continue reading
Bone marrow transplant for Indian radiation victim
Radiation patient to undergo bone marrow transplant fullstory New Delhi, Apr 27 (PTI) Radiation patient Deepak Jain is likely to undergo a bone marrow transplant at the Army Hospital Research and Referral following no improvement in his condition, doctors said today…..fullstory
Moribund U.S. Nuclear Industry Depending on India’s Nuclear Liability Bill
India’s Nuclear Liability Bill, IntelliBriefs, Chaitanya RaviResearch Intern,April 25, 2010 Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill that is essential for American commercial nuclear firms to enter the US$150 billion Indian civil nuclear energy market has sharply polarized India’s political, legal and strategic communities. Continue reading
In absence of radiation safeguards, India’s contamination could be wider
Experts fear presence of more radioactive sources in Mayapuri, The Hindu, Mumbai, April 25, 2010 “…….So far eight victims have suffered in this month after exposure of radioactive material in Mayapuri. All of them are still in a critical condition with dangerously low platelet counts and depleted bone marrows.Besides this, thousands of people in the area now live in fear. Continue reading
AQ Khan Pakistan’s salesman for Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
At the heart of this vast and flourishing Nuclear proliferation racket of Pakistan stands one man Abdul Qadeer Khan [aka Abdul Xerox Khan aka Photochor Khan].
VIDEO Nuclear Terror trader, Pakistan : Story of AQ Khan 01 of 07 at Midnights Children Nuclear Terror trader, Pakistan : Story of AQ Khan 01 of 07 at Midnights Children originally aired by the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] as part of their ‘Nuclear Secrets’ series The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country that lies at the very epicentre of every illegal proliferation of Nuclear Technology ever recorded. Continue reading
India not prepared to cope with nuclear and radiation issues
Government on defensive on Delhi radiation exposure | CalcuttaTube New Delhi, April 20 While asserting that adequate safeguards would be put in place to prevent a recurrence, the government Tuesday found itself on the defensive in the Rajya Sabha as members across the spectrum questioned how people had been exposed to radiation in Delhi. Continue reading
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