Published: July 17th, 2012 at 5:43 pm ET
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Title: Researcher Affected by Radiation: Centre’s Reply Sought
Source: Press Trust of India
Date: Jul 17, 2012
The Delhi High Court today sought the Centre’s response to a plea by a researcher in a Haryana university accusing his guide and other staffers of making him drink tea, laced with radioactive element Strontium 90.“Issue notice to respondents (Ministry of Health), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and BARC for September 13,” said Justice Rajiv Shakdher, issuing notice on the plea by researcher, who had also pleaded to be sent to Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to ascertain the extent of radiation suffered by him at his Hissar institute in Haryana.
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Devi Deen Pandey [...] a post graduate in Environmental Sciences, had joined Hissar-based Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology at Hissar, a joint centre of BARC [Bhaba Atomic Research Centre] and the Board of Research on Nuclear Sciences, said the petition filed through advocate Atul Wadera.
The course in-charge did not want Pandey to continue with his research and asked him to leave, said the petition adding they mixed the “hazardous and radioactive Strontium in a liquid form in cups of tea which the petitioner used to consume without knowing that those were contaminated.”
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Published: July 17th, 2012 at 5:43 pm ET
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Although all large govts are equally culpable, hearing India has a disregard for human life is like hearing the sun rose today. Sad, but inevitable.
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My thoughts too…
… Just another sip of hemlock.
What could happen?
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this is too disgusting for words.. wonder how many more "experiments" like this are are going on in the world??
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typo
should be murder instead of experiment.. imo
unless someone finds differently!!
and the IAEA is happy to let nuke assains play with isotopes…?? hmm!
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i found this article about cobalt 60 contamination and guess who is in the comments??
Polluting radiation
16 Apr 2010 | 12:10 BST | Posted by Subhra Priyadarshini | Category: Environment
"..This week, questions were raised on India’s national regulations on radioactive waste disposal after a scrap dealer and six of his employees in the national capital were hospitalised with severe Cobalt-60 poisoning. The Mayapuri area of west Delhi became a ticking time bomb of sorts with new cases of radioactive poisoning being reported every day. All 800 shops in the scrap market were scanned and 10 sources of radioactive Cobalt-60 were found…"
comments
17 Jan 2011 14:20 GMTReport this comment
DEVI DEEN PANDEY
"..Pollution due to radiation is a menace to society. Agencies generally follow radiation pollution ethics casually and general public to some extent are exposed to anthropogenic sources of radiation pollution. For example at the entry and exit points of Delhi Metro and airports of india as well all over world. So in my opinion, continuous monitoring of regular commuters is a must…"
he also made a comment in 2010
"..26 Sep 2010 19:53 BSTReport this comment
DEVI DEEN PANDEY said:
Hi Subhra, I have seen and read the POLLUTING RADIATION piece. It is a good critic but general public is unaware about radioecology of radiation and its potential source. To some extent, lack of radiological awareness causes the problem…"
cont..
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"29 Apr 2010 20:53 BSTReport this comment
Sriram said:
Environmental Health and Safety or Occupational Health Services departments at UK and US institutions oversee matters relating to radiation, biologics, and other related safety issues. During my entire educational career, I have never met a single regulatory officer at various campuses that I went to in India. I hope this tragic news about the consequences of unregulated radioactive disposal steamrolls new change in the system.
29 Apr 2010 21:35 BSTReport this comment
Sriram said:
Follow-up: I just read some news release by The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) that does the blame-shifting to the University but does little to own responsibility. The agency that ostensibly is supposed to regulate things doesn’t even know if the irradiator at the Delhi University’s Chemistry Department was registered. It is looking into BARC records to verify the registration but is ready to make statements that AERB is “contemplating severe punishment.. for the chemistry department”. Shouldn’t the agency also be held to its responsibility of not enforcing safety regulations?
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article415299.ece .."
all from this link
http://blogs.nature.com/indigenus/2010/04/radiation_pollution.html
was he targetted for his "research"?
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are BARC complicite in trying to murder this guy by witholding the only source of medical support because of his "research"..??
why go back to an old thread to post that update?? BARC didnt prosecute anyone? maybe his card/datafile was marked for illegal thoughts or associating with other bloggers critical of BARC??
i think this thread has turned to the dark side!!
another hilda murel??
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DEVI DEEN PANDEY has another comment posted on this thread. His comment seem valid and balanced.
http://ksparth.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/is-work-in-nuclear-power-plant-risky.html
thanks for flushing out more details arc.
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hii richard
looks like this balanced researcher was a bit too balanced..
he should go to the anti nukes and spill all.. imo
greenpeace could help him with medical support
or he could ask the iranians. a short plane ride…
hope he finds enenews to get this advice..
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good lord
Maybe the folks at Fukushima should hear about this, or more precisely those handling the recovery process, which is far from over: as the latest discovery in the field, the Notre Dame Thorium Borate-1 (NDTB-1) is apparently just what you need to clean up a radioactive mess.
… Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt, claim this crystalline compound, in a modified form, can be used to “eat out” the radioactive ions from nuclear waste streams. Their framework of channels and cages of very small pores makes possible an exchange between anions with a environmental contaminants like chromate and pertechnetate.
However, what does one do with the ions afterwards? The answer is they can be secured and recycled as a material. Apparently, the success rate of the NDTB-1 crystals is fairy high, “curing” 96$ of the amount of 99Tc. Check out the Advanced Functional Materials if you want to find out more, but it’s a pretty nice knowing that you have a solution in emergency cases…"
"…#1 by DEVI DEEN PANDEY on March 27, 2012 – 3:19 am
All technology remove the Radioactive element from disaster sites and beneficial technique but i m worried about that what after Bioaccumulatin of Radionuclides with high half life such as Sr-90/Cs-134/137,and which place that radiactive contaminated Algae dispose off,Disposal again a problem ,But in my opinion Plasma,and Bose -Eienstine Condensate help ful in Management of Radioactive waste and Other Hazardous waste
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http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2012/03/23/nuclear-waste-recovery-notre-dame/
and qoute from above
".."..Pollution due to radiation is a menace to society. Agencies generally follow radiation pollution ethics casually and general public to some extent are exposed to anthropogenic sources of radiation pollution…"
was he a bit to outspoken in 2011 or did he say something he shouldnt have more recently??
odd story and i cant work the guy out…??? gnight
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sounds like devi is quite a bit of a blogger.. so i will forgo sleep and dig a bit more .. i feel sorry for this guy..i dont think i agree with his views but he seems to have some common sense.. probably the reason he was targetted and the reason help is being witheld..
i traced his name to this symposium and found richard wakeford talking about cancer coefficients and saying that all cancers could have a common formulae.. so the dose from cigarettes etc could be compared with ionising radiation and i think he said that different races have different responses.. but i didnt libger there because i found this further down the pdf
"Reference Levels in the Context of Fukushima: Lessons Learned and
Challenges to the Radiation Protection System
K. Sakai
ICRP Committee 5
National Institute of Radiological Protection, Japan
Abstract – After the nuclear accident, a number of reference levels were adopted, including one regarding
the use of playground of schools in Fukushima. Considering the band of 1-20 mSv/year recommended by
ICRP for public exposure for existing exposure situation, Japanese authorities set 20 mSv/year on April 19
as a "start line" for reducing the dose to school children. When the level of 20 mSv/year was announced,
the meaning of a reference level was explained at a press conference. However, the "20mSv/year" led
considerable confusion among the general public and some experts.
cont..
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They thought that the school children
would be exposed to 20 mSv/year and compared this value with the dose limit of 1 mSv/year for planned
exposure situations. Factually, later in May, based on the measurement of ambient dose rates in
schoolhouses as well as playground, actual dose was estimated around 10 mSv/year at most.
Another issue was raised with regard to the higher radiosensitivity of children. In ICRP
recommendations a higher risk coefficient is given to the whole population compared to the adult one,
because it includes children, a sub-population of higher sensitivity. The point of argument was whether
lower reference levels are to be set, when only children are considered.
Including this example, some lessons learned and challenges to the current radiation protection
system will be discussed…"
from this
First ICRP Symposium
on the International System of
Radiological Protection
Bethesda, USA
October 24-26, 2011
http://www.icrp.org/docs/Programme%20-%20ICRP%20Symposium%20on%20the%20System%20of%20Radiological%20Protection.pdf
so devi is a proper nuker if he attended that conference.. and was trusted.. so what went wrong..??
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to conclude,
devi went to the october symposium and then makes a statement of the hiring practises of nuclear power works..
hes then poisoned by his co workers and denied medical care because of his research.. his qualification is in environmental science.. hmmm?
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Excellent detective work dwarfing anything done on the subject so far. It reminds me of Agatha Christie-Strychnine in the soup, and nearer home in Karnataka decades ago a maid Agnes poisoned a high court judge with arsenic in tea. So there are precedents! What an easy way out of the immature nuke tech. And there are rumours that the great BARC/ IAEA scientist K. G. Vohra whose work on possible linkages of massive nuclear power programmes with Synergistic effects of acid rain production with coal fired power plants was dreaded by the nuclear barons(See July Nuclear Issues, enenews) was poisoned and killed perhaps in Vienna.
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"..by K.G. Vohra. To ensure the uninterrupted use of nuclear energy, the radiation protection problem of the. "nuclear era" must be placed in proper perspective…."
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull205/20505093543.pdf
so the IAEA is implicated in this attempted murder too!! imo
looks like devi disagreed with his boss and his boss sent him to his death..
nasty..
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Wow. Brilliant detective work Arclight. The information is there – if anyone is prepared to look.
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arclight
July 18, 2012 at 5:39 am
Along with the paper quoted by you, it is then imperative that enenews readers become aware of the full paper on Synergistic Effects of Ionising Radiation and its Implications for Nuclear Power Programmes and my review of it at:
http://livingnormally.blogspot.in/2012/07/my-review-of-following-article-follows.html
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that is a really interesting article ramas
increased clouds eh?? been seeing alot of that in the uk this last year or so.. wonder why the weather men on tv arent talking about it.. and we know that the northern hemisphere winds from the arctic actually speeded up last year (LENTICULUS CLOUDS SEEN ALL OVER THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE!!).. and not a dicky bird from the tv weatherman..
george orwell would be impressed with that!!
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The Vohra paper extracts:
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SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF
ATMOSPHER]C RELEASES OI'
RADIoACTIVE GASES AND So,*IN
INDUCING NUCLEATION IN THE
ATMOSPHERE
K.G. VOHPa
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,
Trombay, Bombay.
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SYNERGISTIC EEFECI-S OT ATMOSPHERIC RELIASES OE BADIOAC.T'IVE 6ASES AND SO, lN INDUCING
NL CLEATION lN T.1E A! MOSPHERE.
The paper deals with a study related ro lhe combrned effect; of sO? and ionirng radiations in rhe
formation of condensation nuclei in the atmosphere. Estimates of beta dose rate in the air for no.mal
reteases of are,r. short-lived noble gases and tritium from reacror stacks, and releases ofsO, from fossitfueli€
d po\{er plants are presented. Experimental studies carried out include spontaneous formaUon of
condensatlon nuclel ln the flllered air and corrclitioo of thc forlnntlon rats vtth anrbie[t Icvcls of SOr,
radon al]a 'rAr. It has been shown lIat the conlbincd cffect oi SOz and ioDiztns radtatlons can gtvc I
larger production of condenration nuclel than nornrat phoro-oxidation of so, in suntight. Mechanisms of
nucleus folmatioo and lossible atnlospheric effects ot increasing the backSround concenhation of cordensation
nuclei have been dis.,,sr..l in rel,ti.n to !heir role in inadvedentmodificationof locat and 8lobal
climate. l'he need fo! extensive bastc research and field srudies ro estabrish conrrol measures for any
possible climatic impact of future large-scale use of nuclear…
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those new format pdfs are a bugger arent they
takes me ages to sort through.. anyone got a get around??
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good post.. interesting slant…
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Massive police presence does not stop public opposition to Gorakhpur nuclear power plan
Opposition demands scrapping of nuclear project, govt seeks to alley fears quoting scientists Deepender Deswal, TNN | Jul 17, 2012, ROHTAK
"..He also criticized the massive deployment of police force at Gorakhpur and yet it could not deter the public from expressing their opposition to the nuclear plant. He also described the political stand of the ruling Congress leaders invoking the stand of former chief ministers
like late Devi Lal and Bhajan Lal regarding nuclear power as irrelevant stating that the situation had fundamentally changed in the aftermath of Fukusima accident in Japan.
“Congress leaders should see by themselves that there was a serious rethinking at global level in the matter of nuclear power”, he said………"
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/07/18/massive-police-presence-does-not-stop-public-opposition-to-gorakhpur-nuclear-power-plan/
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Gorakhpur farmers not impressed with pro nuclear speakers
"HJC and main opposition INLD are opposing the project on the grounds
that “fertile land” of farmers was being taken for it and are raising
safety concerns.
A farmer had died during the protest against the project last year as
peasants are against the taking away of their land.
“Today, we have succeeded with the support of farmers. We shall not
allow the government to acquire even an inch of land for the nuclear
power plant,” said Bishnoi, who was accompanied by leaders of BJP – an
HJC ally….."
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/07/18/gorakhpur-farmers-not-impressed-with-pro-nuclear-speakers/
would this level of arrogance, allow these scientists and politicians to consider murder and threat a valid form of coercion??
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interesting article here that with 2 on topic stories
India Obsessed with Nuke Deal and Murder Mystery
"…As far as the nuke deal is concerned it has become plain and simple politics. The ruling Congress party that’s piloting the nuclear- civil deal with the US has come to loggerheads with its own allies; the left, who are oppose to the deal. The left by pulling out of the government has reduced the ruling alliance into a minority. The Congress party, the dominant partner in the ruling alliance, instead of seeking truce with its left allies, is hobnobbing with other political parties to muster political majority. It’s resorting to horse trading to reach the magical figure of 272 to pass the floor test in the Lok Sabha.
There seem to be a sense of desperation in the current dispensation that’s keen to override the domestic agenda for foreign policy consideration. This political wisdom is logic of a rare kind. There are so many issues that are left out hanging due to lack of consensus in India and government is going ahead with other pressing issues. However, the desperation for the clearance of the nuke deal is something unprecedented as if the national existence is in jeopardy if the deal does not get through at the stipulated time. This is something intriguing and some one has rightly commented what‘s the deal behind the deal? .."
interesting murder mystery too, gives an insight into the indian mindset
http://www.globalpolitician.com/print.asp?id=5016
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as Tony answered I didnt know that a single mom can earn $8400 in one month on the computer. have you seen this site alturl.com/qhw96
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in this video glaxo pr sales techniques are described.. specifically to sell a drug they would spin any queries doctors had.. an example
"the reason some died was because of their low socioeconomic position"
sound familiar? thinking belarus and kazahkstan and oncologists claims of it not being caused by ionising radiation, claiming poverty and alcoholism as the likely cause..
this is a brilliant video
GlaxoSmithKline whistleblower speaks out about bribery of doctors, off-label marketing of drugs
"..Published on Jul 16, 2012 by TheHealthRanger
This exclusive interview with former GlaxoSmithKline employee and whistleblower Blair Hamrick reveals insider details of GSK's operations, for which the company recently pleaded guilty to felony crimes and paid a $3 billion settlement with the U.S. government.
In this Health Ranger Report video, Blair describes his firsthand knowledge of the "bribery" of physicians, the push for off-label marketing of drugs for unapproved health conditions, the illegal marketing of drugs to children, how 80 percent of physicians were willing to be "on the take," and much more…"
More details at NaturalNews.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_RJ9QPG70U&feature=player_embedded#!
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science has become corrupted.. imo
fundamentaly, at the expense of the citizens..
they murder, lie cheat and steal (re banks)
good role models for our children??
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Good digging, arclight. Lemming power!
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Considering the effects of Strontium-90..this seems like a murder in the scientific community..
Strontium-90:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90
And the google search concerning the strontium releases (those reported) from Fukushima.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=ciatsh&gs_nf=1&gs_mss=fukushima%20stron&cp=19&gs_id=22&xhr=t&q=fukushima+strontium&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=fukushima+strontium&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=7e6e5a5facfcc609&biw=984&bih=507
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