Thane: The Tarapur Atomic Power Station, located in Thane barely 15o km from Mumbai, is the first atomic power project of India. While the government has been promoting and building more nuclear power plants, the Tarapur Atomic Power Station has allegedly become a reason for deaths of villagers where it is located.
Ghivli village is situated very close to the atomic power station and its residents allege that incidents of people suffering from cancer has increased due to the plant. Ghivli has about 5,000 residents one of whom is Avinash More, who was labourer but now he is a painter. Avinash More's house is situated near the power stations boundary wall and according to him the nuclear radiation has affected his fingers due to which he cannot work as a labourer.
He claims his white blood cells have been damaged due to radiation which has reduced his immunity to diseases, and bones have also become very hard.
The other residents of the village also narrate a similar tale. Another villagers Madhu says that his family recently lost an eight-year-old child. According to Madhu his eight-year-old nephew died due to lung cancer as he was exposed to the radiation from the power plant....
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05:48 PM, Apr 05, 2013
A ruling Congress party MLA on Monday climbed on a mobile tower to demand shifting of three mobile towers from Badi Sadri locality in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan, police said. "Prakash Chandra Chaudhary climbed on the tower in the morning to press for his demand that the towers be shifted to elsewhere and descended after five hours on assurance by district administration," Circle Officer Jagdish Narayan said. ...
04:35 PM, Apr 01, 2013
India on Wednesday dismissed as "totally baseless" Sri Lankan media reports on alleged radiation leaks at Kudankulam nuclear power station in Tamil Nadu. ...
02:26 AM, Mar 07, 2013
London: Pregnant women, beware! Cellphone radiation exposure during pregnancy impacts fetal brain development and may cause hyperactivity, researchers say. Yale School of Medicine researcher, Dr Hugh Taylor co-authored the latest study to probe the impact of cellphone exposure on pregnancies. "We had pregnant mice in cages and we just simply put a cellphone on top of the cage. In half the mice, the cellphone was active and in half of...
04:23 PM, Nov 12, 2012
London: Pregnant women beware! Cellphone radiation exposure during pregnancy impacts foetal brain development and may cause hyperactivity, researchers say. Yale School of Medicine researcher, Dr Hugh Taylor co-authored the latest study to probe the impact of cellphone exposure on pregnancies. "We had pregnant mice in cages and we just simply put a cellphone on top of the cage. In half the mice, the cellphone was active and in half of...
03:02 PM, Nov 12, 2012
On this episode of Living It Up, find out how to protect yourself from mobile phone tower radiation. ...
06:31 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Colombo: India on Wednesday assured Sri Lanka that the safety measures instituted at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu are of the highest order and there is no threat of radiation from the atomic unit. India's High Commission in Colombo in a statement also said a Sri Lankan delegation will visit India in the coming months to discuss areas of potential cooperation, including the area of nuclear safety....
05:52 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Mumbai: India has the worst cellular tower radiation norms in the world. But from Saturday new guidelines are being implemented. Cellular towers will have to reduce the amount of radiation they emit to 1/10th of the current level. But is the new limit sufficient to reduce serious health risks, given that most countries in the world have radiation levels 1000 to 10,000 times lesser than India? 29-year-old Karmel Nair, a...
06:29 AM, Sep 01, 2012
A copy of a note by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to mobile phone manufacturers, which was reviewed by Mint, gives the manufacturers a year more before their handsets that are not in line with the new radiation norms are phased out. This is the latest in an ongoing attempt by the department to make mobile handset manufacturers conform to the new radiation norms. So far, the September 1 deadline...
02:06 PM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on Atomic Energy Regulatory Board on Thursday said that India has had no radiation safety police in the last three decades. The damning report comes close on the heels of its reports on coal allocations, power projects and Delhi airport. Observing that Pakistan and a number of other countries had conferred legal status to their nuclear regulators, the CAG on Wednesday...
02:12 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Environment Ministry feels radiation emitted by mobile towers has ill effects on wildlife, especially birds and bees, and has asked the Department of Telecommunication not to permit such structures within one-km radius of each other. In an advisory, the Ministry has said that there is an "urgent need" to refine the Indian standard on safe limits of exposure to electro-magnetic radiations (EMR). Till it is reformed, "a precautionary...
05:42 PM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: Two workers at the Rawatbhata Atomic Power Station in Rajasthan have suffered exposure to high doses of radioactive tritium and are under observation. The incident took place on June 23 at Unit 5 of the plant during routine maintenance work. "There was no abnormal release of radioactivity to the environment," Nalinish Nagaich, Executive Director, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited said from Mumbai. He said there was localised...
05:38 PM, Jun 29, 2012
London: Radiation exposure from multiple CT scans in childhood may increase the risk of brain cancer and leukaemia, a new study has warned. Researchers led by a team from the Newcastle University looked at the records of 175,000 children and young people under 21 aged who had CT(computerised tomography) scans in British hospitals between 1985 and 2002. They found that radiation exposure received from two to three CT scans of...
03:13 PM, Jun 07, 2012
Golaghat: Sparrows are disappearing from many parts of the country, and specially from Assam where electro-magnetic radiation from communication towers, use of leaded petrol in vehicles and overuse of chemicals and pesticides in agriculture have been cited as causes by scientists. The chief scientist of the Regional Agriculture Research Centre in Lakhimpur, Dr Prabal Saikia, said, "It is a fact that sparrows are becoming scarce throughout Assam " both house...
11:30 AM, May 28, 2012
London: A "space drink" developed by NASA to protect astronauts from radiation can also reduce wrinkles and reverse the telltale signs of ageing in just four months, say researchers, following a human trial. A team at Utah University has found in its research that the concoction, known as AS10, dramatically reduces wrinkles, blemishes and sun damage after four months. At the start of their trial, the researchers took visia photographs...
04:16 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: From September, your phone will have to tell you how much of a danger it is to your health. A cell phone could ruin one's sex life. A JNU researcher did tests on male rats and found that cell phone radiation seriously reduced sperm count and testes size. But there are other, more obvious parts of the body that are affected by radiation. The phone antenna transmits and...
01:44 PM, May 08, 2012
Byron, Illinois: A nuclear reactor in northern Illinois shut down on Monday after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators. Unit 2 at Byron Generating Station, about 95 miles (153 kilometers) northwest of Chicago, shut down at 10:18 am, after losing power, Exelon officials said. Diesel generators began supplying power to the plant, and operators began releasing steam...
10:22 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Washington: The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption. The solar flare occurred at about 11 p.m. EST (0400 GMT) Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. The biggest issue is radiation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado. The...
06:30 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Kolkata: The basement of the fire-ravaged AMRI Hospital in Kolkata was used for storing inflammable articles and not for car parking, a senior corporation official alleged. Kolkata Municipal Corporation DG (building) Devasish Kar alleged d that the basement was use for storing combustible articles and not for car parking for which it was meant when the building was constructed in 2004-5. "It is an administrative lapse," Kar said. Mayor Sovan...
05:43 PM, Dec 09, 2011
London: Want to have a tan but without using sunbeds? You can do that now, as scientists have developed a tiny chip the size of a rice grain which they say can give you a three-month tan once implanted under the skin. Developed by Australian pharmaceutical company Clinuvel, the implant stimulates the production of melanin, a naturally occurring pigment that controls the colour of the skin and how much UV...
06:17 PM, Aug 29, 2011
