Delhi university probed over radioactive waste

India's Atomic Energy Agency, the regulator said Friday it was investigate allegations that Delhi University (DU) radioactive material buried on campus its the middle of an escalating scandal over his treatment of toxic squander.

Police Thursday answerable DU for dumping a emission machine that contains radioactive Cobalt 60, which ended up in the scrapyard in New Delhi, where it killed a 35-year-old worker and put seven others in hospital.

The episode has highlighted the lax enforcement of waste disposal laws in India and raised misgivings of extra pollution from the campus, the city's prime establishment with 300,000 students reach over two location. Atomic Energy dogmatic Board (chaste) said Friday that it had balanced the license to handle radioactive resources chemistry laboratory responsible for throwing out the emission machine.

"The university authorities and students cannot use the lab until we give them permission," Ompal Singh, said the secretary chaste.