Uranium Poisons Indian Children
The Guardian UK reported that uranium was linked to a high increase in birth defects, physical and mental abnormalities and cancer in local children in the Punjab district. Worse, is that the Indian government has been doing everything possible to ensure the story isn’t leaked.
The story describes that in one case the level of uranium was 60 times greater than the maximum limit. While the Indian authorities did next to nothing to determine the cause the investigation by the paper found the cause of the uranium was likely coal fired power plant stations. Fine fly ash produced when coal is burned contain concentrated levels of uranium. A Russian report cautions that people who live near coal fired plants are at greater risk for radiation hazard.
Water tests conducted near the plants show that the level of uranium around the Punjabi plants were 15 times the World Health Organisation’s maximum safe limits.
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