Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
With another victim from Mayapuri being hospitalised with Cobalt-60 exposure, the government has asked the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to carry out a detailed mapping of all scrap markets in Delhi. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta and attended by DPCC …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: The waste imported to the Capital will have to go through a tighter sieve now with the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) having decided to seek the Customs Department's intervention to ensure that radioactive waste does not find its way into the public domain again …
But Says All Preventive Steps Have Been Taken And Radiation Levels Are Receding The Mayapuri radiation scare refuses to die down. Even as experts from BARC claimed that no
PREETI KARMYOGI NEW DELHI A team of experts scanned over 800 shops in Mayapuri scrap market in West Delhi where 10 sources of Cobalt-60 have been recovered in the recent past, leaving seven exposed to radiation. Member of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and former Bhabha Atomic Research Centre director …
The standing committee of the MCD on Thursday passed a resolution suggesting installation of radiation detecting devices on all the border points to prevent radioactive substances from entering the city. The resolution was moved by BJP councillor Meera Agarwal, who said that radioactive scrap entering the city was a serious …
New Delhi: In what substantially raises the danger of accidental radiation exposure at the Mayapuri junk market, nuclear experts combing the area on Wednesday detected two new sources of the radioactive material, cobalt-60, at a shop at least one kilometre away from the site where the hazardous metal was found …
PRASHANT PANDEY and SUCHITRA K. MOHANTY The Delhi Municipal Act, which was enact- ed in 1957, has no provision to deal with e-waste and nuclear waste. There is no law on disposal of such waste. `No laws for nuke, e-waste' : After the first ever incident of radiation that occurred …
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New Delhi: Just as the scrap market at Mayapuri was returning to normalcy after radioactive cobalt-60 exposed six people to radiation there, the monitoring agencies claimed on Tuesday they had found another source of radiation
NEW DELHI: One more suspected source of radiation has been detected in the sprawling scrap market at Mayapuri here in the Capital where two scrap dealers and five workers were taken ill this past week after being exposed to Cobalt-60 radioactive isotope. Confirming this, B. Bhattacharjee, Member of the National …
PREETI KARMYOGI NEW DELHI A team of nuclear April 13: A team of nuclear experts visiting Mayapuri scrap market, where Cobalt 60 radiation was reported on Friday, discovered one more source of radiation on Tuesday. However, they said that intensity of the emission was very low and it may be …
A scrap dealer in Delhi and five of his em ployees were seriously injured when they came into contact with radioactive waste material. They are now in a critical condition with their bone marrow impaired and blood platelet count dropping to dangerous levels. Only when the dealer is in a …
In the wake of the Mayapuri incident where six persons got seriously injured after getting exposed to a radioactive element, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to form a
After being alerted by the DAE, the IAEA will turn to the Nuclear Suppli- er Group. All these agencies will help trace the source from where the Cobalt 60 emanat- ed. RASHME SEHGAL The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the Mayapuri …
Siddharth Varadarajan Washington: Conceived with theatrical flourish by President Barack Obama last April, the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) which gets under way here on Monday combines the pursuit of a serious agenda
Rules to govern medical waste largely ignore radioactive matter; agencies pass the buck Before the radiation leak at a Mayapuri junk market stirred the authorities into action, the dangers posed by radioactive material seems to have been mostly ignored. While several hospitals use machines that include radioactive material
There are times when letting go is the best way to move forward. When the US abandoned plans for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca mountain, Nevada, there was no alternative in sight. Now, less than two months after that decision to walk away from a decades-long, multibillion-dollar boondoggle, a …
Anyone following the statements expressed from time to time about the renaissance of nuclear energy could get the impression that the number of new nuclear plants was increasing at an immense and steady rate. In fact, more recent statistics show 60 plants in the process of being built, the majority …
