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Import of Uranium by India

Uranium is a chemical element which is found in nature as uranium-238, uranium-235 and a very small amount...

📅 July 24, 2019

US Nuclear waste dump plant marks 20 years

With tons of cold war era nuclear waste and decades of bomb making, US started this undergroung nuclear...

📅 March 24, 2019

Cyclone-30, India’s biggest cyclotron facility becomes operational

India’s biggest cyclotron facility “Cyclone-30” has become operational at the Kolkata-based Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) under the...

📅 September 22, 2018

The scientists at INMAS develops India’s first indigenous anti-nuclear medical kit

The scientist at INMAS claim to have developed India’s first indigenous medical kit that may ensure protection from...

📅 September 16, 2018

Marie Curie voted as most influential woman in history as per recent Readers of BBC History magazine poll

Nobel prize winning scientist Marie Curie was the most influential woman in this poll. The magazine ranked Polish...

📅 August 11, 2018

India’s Mobile Tower Radio Emission Norms

Telcos say that they are not allowed to expand tower network due to emission issues. Emissions from mobile...

📅 October 4, 2015

Indian Scientist Rao Papineni gets US Patent for Cancer Treatment

In a breakthrough innovation Rao Papineni, the nanotechnology scientist, in collaboration with his colleagues invented a cancer treatment...

📅 July 2, 2012

‘All mobiles must carry radiation tags by September’: Centre to cell phone manufacturers

The Government has instructed all cell phone manufacturers to include radiation tags in mobile handsets to display Specific...

📅 May 2, 2012

High Precision Radiotherapy-RAPIDARC

Recently, High Precision Radiotherapy “RAPIDARC” was inaugurated at Madras Cancer Institute, Chennai for treating Cancer. “RapidArc” radiotherapy technology...

📅 November 4, 2011

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