New Delhi, May 07: Under attack on the Mayapuri radiation accident, Government today said Delhi University had violated rules by selling scrap containing radioactive material and that those responsible would not be spared.
Minister of State in the PMO Prithiviraj Chavan asserted that all the 19 nuclear plants generating electricity in the country were completely safe and mechanisms would be strengthened in the field of atomic research and medical use as “some lessons have been learnt” from the accident in which one person died.
He told the Lok Sabha that Delhi Police had upgraded the FIR in the case after one person died and that it was looking at “criminal negligence” part in the radiation caused by Cobalt-60.
–PTI