Radiation leak: Warning label overlooked by DU?

New Delhi:

Even as the search continues for a part of the missing deadly Cobalt-60 in north India which was callously sold by the Delhi University to a scrap dealer, NDTV's Science Editor Pallava Bagla visited a similar Gammacell - a machine that weighs as much as the combined weight of 8-10 full grown elephants - and found out that in an act of grave negligence, a warning label was overlooked by the university:

India's first radiation accident happened because of a machine like this (see picture).

A similar machine, weighing around 4000 Kgs, was sold by the chemistry department at the University of Delhi as scrap.

This particular machine at the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) facility is one of the six machines that India has, and the only one which was imported from Canada and is still functioning.

There is a very clear mark on this machine which says "Caution - Radioactive Material".

The machine callously sold by the University of Delhi clearly would have stated something like this and would have been housed in a very special room.

But for some reason, the learned professors at the university sold it in grave negligence, which caused injury to many people and the death of one worker.