WHO, UNDP, UNEP and UNICEF have partnered to create a new compendium of 500 actions aimed at reducing death and diseases driven by environmental risk factors, the first such resource to unite this expertise from across the UN system. Environmental pollution and other environmental risks cause 24 per cent of …
March 21: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited launched its personalised ring-back tone services for landline connections on Saturday. This facility will be extended to about 2.65 lakh customers in Hyderabad and Secunderahad on a fixed monthly subscription of Rs 25 and Rs. 12 for song selection. As of now this …
Indian steel exporters are worried about its adverse consequences. Vaiju Naravane With the publication of an alarmist article in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, the controversy over radioactive steel exports from India has erupted once again and Indian steel exporters are worried about adverse consequences on the industry, particularly at …
MADURAI: Scientists from the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) held an awareness programme here on Tuesday to send out a message that nuclear energy is safe and people need not have any apprehensions about safety parameters. A three-day workshop on
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: A essential material required for treating bone cancer has been developed by scientists of the Fast Breeder Test Reactor at Kalpakkam. Stroncium pellets, which are being imported, have been prepared at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research and will be discharged from the reactor in …
Exposure to natural background radiation is an average 2.4 milliGray per year (milliGray or mGy is the unit for measuring radiation dose received per kg of body mass) and is often greater than exposure to human-caused radiation (0.01 mGy per year from nuclear weapons testing, accidents and operations combined) and …
New evidence says that all radiations do not lead to cancer RADIATION protection standards say that all doses of radiation, big or small, risk human health and lead to cancers. For example, the entire cycle from extraction of nuclear material to waste disposal, exposes workers to ionising radiation that is …
Mumbai: The government is funding research to develop electromagnetic radiation-based weapons that can immobilise targets without causing bodily harm and disperse crowds without firing a single bullet in the air or using a baton. A source in the Union home ministry told DNA that microwave radiation-based weapons are being worked …
food safety China lists illegal additives China has come out with its first official compilation of 17 illegal food additives used in the country. The banned substances include boric acid, commonly used as an insecticide but also mixed with noodles and meatballs to increase elasticity, and industrial formaldehyde, used in …
Now it is official. In the January 2009 issue of the Health Physics Journal, researchers from the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), Thiruvananthapuram, and their collaborators have shown that there is no excess cancer risk to people living in the area of high natural background radiation in Kerala from exposure to …
Sib Kumar Das BERHAMPUR: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and Berhampur University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to study positive impacts of radiation on plants. Speaking to The Hindu, Vice Chancellor Bijay Kumar Sahu said it was a prestigious project for the university. The BARC has chosen four …
The environmental clearance offered to the Koodankulam reactors in Tamil Nadu is not based upon a careful examination of all the potential impacts on the environment and livelihoods nor does it incorporate public concerns.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has called for increased investment in radiation-induced mutation techniques that help in producing crop varieties with high yields and disease resistance, and can grow in stressful conditions such as drought, flood, and salinity. Using gamma radiation to produce new crop varieties through random mutations …
Safety in nuclear power plants (NPPs) in India is a very important topic and it is necessary to dissipate correct information to all the readers and the public at large. In this article, I have briefly described how the safety in our NPPs is maintained. Safety is accorded overriding priority …
Occupational risks, the present nuclear threat, and the potential danger associated with nuclear power have raised concerns regarding the metabolism of plutonium in pregnant women. The researchers measured plutonium levels in the milk teeth of children born between 1951 and 1995 to assess the potential risk that plutonium incorporated by …
Angelique Chrisafis Paris: They often wore only Army-regulation shorts and T-shirts to protect them from atomic explosions, and were stationed dangerously close to mushroom clouds or hosed-down contaminated equipment wearing just swimming trunks. The soldiers and civilians who worked on France
Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata Checks for radiation may become mandatory for metal scrap if the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has its way. The AERB, which has taken up the matter on a war-footing after 20 French workers were exposed to excessive radiation from elevator buttons made from steel …
Never before was the stakes involved behind a village fishing competition so high anywhere. It was a whopping Rs 1,000 crore in this case! One hundred seven fishermen and villagers from distant villages from around Mawthabah, West Khasi Hills district dropped their lines on river Phodphra in the fishing competition. …
marine sciences Rare corals aplenty According to researchers from James Cook University rare coral species might not be at high risks of extinction due to small population sizes.Their tendency to hybridize saves them. The previous prediction was that small population sizes led to decreased genetic diversity, which in turn decreased …
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. Improper disposal of industrial equipment and medical scanners containing radioactive materials …
