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Nuclear plant workers in Gujarat exposed to radiation
A shocking case of nuclear operating negligence has come to light in Gujarat. Four contract workers at the Kakrapar atomic reactor near Surat were exposed to almost six times the annual permissible levels of radiation.
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Six more workers may exceed Japan's radiation limit
Six more workers at Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant may have exceeded the radiation exposure limit, bringing the total to eight, the government said Monday.The health and labour ministry released the preliminary results of tests on how much radiation they had been exposed to as they worked at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.Three men are c...
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Tainted water at two reactors increases alarm for Japanese
Japan's troubled effort to contain the nuclear contamination crisis at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant suffered a setback on Sunday when alarmingly high radiation levels were discovered in a flooded area inside the complex, raising new questions about how and when recovery workers could resume their tasks.Tokyo Electric Power Company, the oper...
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No insurance for radiation exposure
Even as the threat of nuclear radiation exposure becomes more real in light of the meltdown in Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, MiD DAY has found that no insurance company in the country covers the specific outcomes of such an eventuality.'Nuclear radiation' is, in fact, a standard exclusion in the text of most policies.A spokesperson for Tata-AIG ...
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Radiation exposure raises second cancer risk
Radiation exposure increases the risk that cancer survivors will go on to develop another cancer.
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Virus linked with brain tumour
A virus that commonly lies dormant in children could be responsible in the formation of medulloblastomas, which are fast growing malignant childhood tumours. Some medulloblastomas contain one or two proteins from a virus called the JC virus. Medulloblastomas are the second most common type of brain tumours accounting for approximately 20% of the ...
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Nuclear plant workers in Gujarat exposed to radiation
A shocking case of nuclear operating negligence has come to light in Gujarat. Four contract workers at the Kakrapar atomic reactor near Surat were exposed to almost six times the annual permissible levels of radiation.
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Six more workers may exceed Japan's radiation limit
Six more workers at Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant may have exceeded the radiation exposure limit, bringing the total to eight, the government said Monday.The health and labour ministry released the preliminary results of tests on how much radiation they had been exposed to as they worked at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.Three men are c...
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Tainted water at two reactors increases alarm for Japanese
Japan's troubled effort to contain the nuclear contamination crisis at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant suffered a setback on Sunday when alarmingly high radiation levels were discovered in a flooded area inside the complex, raising new questions about how and when recovery workers could resume their tasks.Tokyo Electric Power Company, the oper...
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No insurance for radiation exposure
Even as the threat of nuclear radiation exposure becomes more real in light of the meltdown in Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, MiD DAY has found that no insurance company in the country covers the specific outcomes of such an eventuality.'Nuclear radiation' is, in fact, a standard exclusion in the text of most policies.A spokesperson for Tata-AIG ...
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Radiation exposure raises second cancer risk
Radiation exposure increases the risk that cancer survivors will go on to develop another cancer.
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Virus linked with brain tumour
A virus that commonly lies dormant in children could be responsible in the formation of medulloblastomas, which are fast growing malignant childhood tumours. Some medulloblastomas contain one or two proteins from a virus called the JC virus. Medulloblastomas are the second most common type of brain tumours accounting for approximately 20% of the ...
