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- 4 years after leak, Delhi's Mayapuri scrap yard has no radiation detectors
Four years after the radiation leak of cobalt 60 at the Mayapuri scrap yard, there is no way yet to detect radiation in the waste market.
03 Apr, 2014, 02.38 AM IST
- BARC scientists recover uranium, cobalt-60 from N-waste
Use of radiation-resistant micro- organisms have enabled scientists of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to recover heavy metals like ur...
10 Apr, 2011, 02.21 PM IST
- 15 disused Cobalt-60 isotopes stolen from SAIL in Jan
The government today said 15 disused and decayed Cobalt-60, a radioactive isotope, were stolen from state-run SAIL's Durgapur plant in Janu...
14 Mar, 2011, 06.37 PM IST
- Radiation response team recovers all Cobalt-60 source from Delhi
The National Radiation Emergency Response team has recovered all the radioactive Cobalt-60 source from a Gamma cell which was scattered in ...
05 May, 2010, 01.09 PM IST
- IAEA seeks info on radioactive waste leak in Delhi
The UN atomic watchdog on Saturday said it is seeking more information about reports of a radioactive waste scandal at the University of De...
01 May, 2010, 07.36 PM IST
- Radioactive metal came from DU
If the presence of radioactive cobalt 60 at the Mayapuri scrap market wasn’t shocking enough, the police on Wednesday dropped a bigger bomb...
29 Apr, 2010, 08.37 AM IST
- Lurking radioactive waste exposes defenceless Delhi
The exposure to the radioactive Cobalt-60 in scrap at Mayapuri in west Delhi that has left a scrap dealer, four of his labourers and anothe...
10 Apr, 2010, 01.29 AM IST
- Cobalt-60 source of radiation in west Delhi
Experts today identified the material which led to a "very powerful" radiation in a west Delhi industrial area as Cobalt-60, the exposure t...
09 Apr, 2010, 11.48 AM IST