Radiation

Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: With a view to ensuring that the guidelines of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) and the Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules are strictly implemented, a UGC expert committee has suggested the setting up of university committees to review safety in handling radioactive and other hazardous materials used by the institutions. The University Safety Comm

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Citizens’ groups opposing permissions given to telecom firms to set up cellphone towers on residential buildings, schools and hospitals have asked the state to reveal the recommendations made by the committee set up to draft a policy to regulate such installations. Residents say the recommendations by committee, formed by the government recently, are in favour of the cellphone companies. While

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MUMBAI: Mobile service providers will have to submit an annual report of the electro magnetic radiations (EMR) level generated from mobile towers near schools and hospital zones.

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A Gopalakrishnan Parliament must recognise that the nuclear reactor installed in INS Arihant represents a high potential risk for causing a major nuclear accident If INS Arihant’s base port is Visakhapatnam, for example, the entire city could be at a high risk of being exposed to radiation from a nuclear accident, when it is in port. There is the possibility that substantial areas of the co

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NEW DELHI: There were strong indications on Monday that the government and the Bharatiya Janata Party were close to arriving at consensus on the proposed nuclear civil liability Bill.

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Moscow: As if things in Russia were not looking sufficiently apocalyptic already, with 100-degree temperatures and noxious fumes rolling in from burning peat bogs and forests, there is growing alarm here that fires in regions coated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago could now be emitting plumes of radioactive smoke.    Several fires have been documented i

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