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Tailing Dams of Jadugoda: Where Storm Spreads Radioactive Dust in Homes and Playgrounds

Tailing Dams of Jadugoda: Where Storm Spreads Radioactive Dust in Homes and Playgrounds

Jadugoda, Uranium Mining June 24, 2017 at 7:24 pm 0 comments

According to Members of Jharkhandi Organization against Radiation(JOAR) , On 20th, 21st and 22nd May, 2017 evening , at 3.50 pm, 4.00 pm, and 4.30 pm, the strong winds which accompanied the heavy storm lead the uranium waste of the 3rd Tailing Dam fall down near the farm and the drain which resulted in the toxicity and radioactivity of the uranium tailing dust spread towards the vast mass of Land.

Villagers drink, bathe and wash themselves, their clothes and their food in the tributaries of the Subarnarekha River, which a 2009 study found to be heavily contaminated with alpha radiation, with levels 192 per cent higher than safe limits set by the World Health Organization.  Ashish Birulee

Nuclear waste in India poured routinely in Subarnarekha river?

Nuclear Waste December 14, 2015 at 7:40 pm 5 comments

India’s nuclear industry pours its wastes into a river of death and disease. Scientists say nuclear workers, village residents, and children living near mines and factories are falling ill after persistent exposure to unsafe radiation.