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Radioactive Cargo Seized At Mundra Port Headed From Pakistan To China
Joint Customs and DRI teams in Gujarat's Mundra Port seized a consignment containing potentially hazardous materials. According to reports, the shipment was traveling from Karachi, Pakistan to Shanghai, China. The containers were not bound for Mundra Port or any other Indian port. However, government authorities had the cargo offloaded at Mundra Port for inspection as it had Hazard Class 7 markings, according to a statement released by Adani… read-more
Tags: Radioactive, mundra port, adani ports, India, China
Courtesy: India Today
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France Suffers Self-inflicted Radioactive Dust From Saharan Nuclear Test
French NGO Association for Control of Radioactivity in the West (ACRO) has apprised that northerly winds from the Sahara desert have brought deadly radioactive dust to France. The NGO said the toxic dust emanated from 'caesium-137', French nuclear tests conducted in Algeria in the 1960s. The explosions caused permanent radioactive contamination in the Sahara, the brunt of which France is now bearing. However, scientists said that the current… read-more
Tags: ACRO, France, Sahara, Algeria, Radioactive, dust, caesium-137
Courtesy: India.com
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Indore: STF Arrests 4 UP-Based 'Uranium' Sellers
Indore's Special Task Force on February 23 arrested four men possessing 2gm radioactive Uranium powder, which they claimed was for sale. All four men belonging to Kanpur's Kalyanpura were nabbed after input about their location from an STF informer. Reportedly, the offenders were carrying the element in glass bottles and a plastic packet. Meanwhile, the uranium sample that claimed to have Rs 5 crore worth by offenders, is currently under lab-… read-more
Tags: indore, UP, Special Task Force, Uranium, Radioactive
Courtesy: The Times of India
