The Delhi airport witnessed a false alarm about a radioactive leak today after a consignment of nuclear drugs for cancer -- Molybdenum - 99 -- arrived by an Air France Flight for a Delhi hospital.
Sekhar Basu, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India, the country's highest decision making body on issues nuclear, told NDTV, "There was no radioactive leakage. It was a one of the false alarms".
The alarm spread after an employee of a private company handling the cargo, saw the radioactive tags, took a radiation reading but misinterpreted it, said sources in the aviation ministry.
As the matter was brought to the notice of the Central Reserve Police Force, which provides security to the airport, the whole cargo area of the Terminal 3 was cordoned off and evacuated. Fire engines were put on stand-by.
Special teams from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board were dispatched to conduct the tests and a team from the National Disaster Management Authority also reached the spot. The Department of Atomic Energy activated its crisis management group.
09/10/16 Pallava Bagla & Sandeep Phukan/NDTV
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Sekhar Basu, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India, the country's highest decision making body on issues nuclear, told NDTV, "There was no radioactive leakage. It was a one of the false alarms".
The alarm spread after an employee of a private company handling the cargo, saw the radioactive tags, took a radiation reading but misinterpreted it, said sources in the aviation ministry.
As the matter was brought to the notice of the Central Reserve Police Force, which provides security to the airport, the whole cargo area of the Terminal 3 was cordoned off and evacuated. Fire engines were put on stand-by.
Special teams from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board were dispatched to conduct the tests and a team from the National Disaster Management Authority also reached the spot. The Department of Atomic Energy activated its crisis management group.
09/10/16 Pallava Bagla & Sandeep Phukan/NDTV
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