Uranium
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Study to trace uranium in water Punjab
ASIT JOLLY CHANDIGARH
Environment minis ter Jairam Ramesh has ordered a comprehensive study to assess the impact of radioactive uranium traces in drinking water on human health across southwestern Punjab.
“The Indian Council for Medical Research has been asked to initiate a special study and their report should be available within the next three to four months,” the minister said responding
07/09/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Reports and Documents
Discussion in Lok Sabha on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill (25/08/2010)
Read this Discussion in Lok Sabha on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010.The bill has been approved after the government agreed to opposition’s demand for strengthening a contentious provision relating to suppliers' liability in the legislation.
Aug 2010
Lok Sabha
Feature Articles
Binding capacity and root penetration of seven species selected for revegetation of uranium tailings at Jaduguda in Jharkhand, India
Uranium from ores mined at the three mines –Jaduguda, Bhatin and Narwapahar (Jharkhand) – is processed in the mill and the waste emerges as tailings. The recorded radioactivity level in these tailings is very low, but to avoid any long-term effect of these tailings on the atmosphere, humans, cattle as well as native flora and fauna, the tailings are covered with 30 cm layer of soil.
Aug 2010
Current Science
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507-503
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Mining draft to be ready next month
SHILLONG: The much-delayed draft of the State Mining Policy will be ready by next month, Deputy Chief Minister Bindo M Lanong in-charge Mining and Geology Department said on Friday. The Mining Policy is expected to regulate mining activities, especially coal and limestone mining, and also conserve the fast-depleting forest cover in the mineral-rich areas.
21/08/2010
Shillong Times (Shillong)
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Centre needs uranium from M’laya: Chavan
NEW DELHI:: With parliamentary processes being set in motion for introduction and subsequent passage of the Nuclear Liability Bill during the ongoing session itself, Union Minister for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan made it clear that the Centre has to go for indigenous exploration of uranium including from Meghalaya to ensure the country's exclusive energy security.
While imported ur
21/08/2010
Shillong Times (Shillong)
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State not aware of Centre’s uranium mining plan
SHILLONG: Deputy Chief Minister in-charge Mining and Geology, Bindo M Lanong, said he was not aware of the Centre's plan to start uranium mining in the State by 2012.
12/08/2010
Shillong Times (Shillong)
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Panel to monitor heavy metals in water bodies
Bathinda: In view of reports of the presence of uranium and other heavy metals besides arsenic in canal and underground water that were causing deadly diseases like cancer, the state government has constituted a five-member committee to formulate methods for sampling these water sources.
27/07/2010
Tribune (New Delhi)
Feature Articles
Metal exposure in the children of Punjab, India
This new study confirms that children in Faridkot area have for long been exposed to a large number of heavy metals, including lead, barium, cadmium, manganese and uranium. It has the study has been conducted by Baba Farid Center for Special Children. <br>
Jul 2010
Clinical Medicine Insights: Therapeutics
655-661
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Karnataka eyes AP atomic unit
Hyderabad, July 6: Karnataka, which has thwarted the state’s hopes of getting more water from Krishna River, is now making deft moves to hijack the 2,000 mw nuclear power project proposed to be set up at Pulivendula in Kadapa district.
07/07/2010
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
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The scourge of Malwa
The absence of any systematic study by Indian or foreign scientists has left sufficient room for wide and wild speculation on the probable causes of high incidence of cancer in parts of Punjab
The scourge of Malwa
30/06/2010
Tribune (New Delhi)
