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Customs, DRI team seizes containers believed to carry radioactive substanc
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 19 (ANI): Adani Ports and Logistics on Friday said that several containers were seized by Customs and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) team at Mundra Airport on Thursday from a foreign vessel believed to carry radioactive substances from Karachi in Pa
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2 held at Kolkata airport with suspected radioactive material
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolkata [West Bengal] (India), August 26 (ANI): The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested two persons from the Kolkata airport with over Rs 4250 crore worth of Californium, an expensive radioactive metal.
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Pakistan trying to malign India, material seized in Bokaro not uranium: ME
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday hit out at Pakistan for its disposition to malign India "without caring to verify facts" and stated that the unidentified material seized in Jharkhand's Bokaro recently was not uranium or radioactive in natu
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Sri Lanka: China-bound ship carrying nuclear material sent out of Hambanto
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 22 (ANI): Sri Lankan authorities expelled a China-bound cargo ship that entered the Port of Hambantota on Tuesday without revealing that it had stored radioactive uranium.
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Japan plans to release Fukushima wastewater into sea amid concerns from Ch
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 9 (ANI): The Japanese government is set to announce plans to dispose of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by releasing it into the ocean amid concerns from neighbours China and South Korea, NHK reported.
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Japan asks IAEA to verify safety before Fukushima nuclear plant can releas
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], March 23 (ANI): Japan's industry ministry requested the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday to review the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant so that it can release radioactive water into the sea.
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Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 20 (ANI): Killer cosmic rays from nearby supernovae could be the culprit behind at least one mass extinction event, researchers said, and finding certain radioactive isotopes in Earth's rock record could confirm this scenario.
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Astronomers research on radioactive aluminum in solar systems unlocks form
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Texas [USA], July 28 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has proposed a new method for the formation of aluminum-26, a radioactive isotope of the chemical element aluminum, in star systems that are forming planets.
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Improved treatment for patients with hyperthyroidism: Study
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 29 (ANI): According to an evidence review led by researchers, radioactive iodine is to be recommended as the frontline treatment for patients with thyroid gland overactivity caused by conditions such as Graves' disease.
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Pak subscribes to IAEA's guidance on management of disused radioactive sou
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Sept 12 (ANI): Pakistan on Wednesday conveyed to UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) its decision to subscribe to the guidance on the management of disused radioactive sources.
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Japan minister suggests dumping radioactive water in Pacific Ocean
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], Sept 11 (ANI): Eight years after the nuclear disaster, Japan's Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada suggested dumping the radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
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Cold War 'coffin' leaking radioactive waste in Pacific, UN expresses conce
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 16 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday confirmed that a massive concrete dome built during the Cold War era to contain waste from nuclear testing conducted by the US has degraded and began leaking into the Pacific Ocean.
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