B’NGIR MP WRITES TO PM FOR SURVEY
Balangir MP Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo has expressed concern
over rise in cancer related deaths in atomic energy centres among people in the
age group of 29-50 years due to exposure to radiation and demanded a detailed
survey on the health risk to human beings in all the atomic power stations
in India.
In
a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently, Singh Deo cited a RTI reply
mentioning that a total of 3,387deaths among staff of the 19 atomic centers in
the country have occurred in the last 20 years and 2,600 of them are due to
cancer. As per the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)
the units of occupational exposure to radiation should not be higher than 50
mSv (millisevert) in a year and the annual average dose over the five years
should not exceed over 20 mSv, pointed out Singh Deo. To know the exact cause
of the rising cancer deaths in atomic centers and the amount of radiation
exposure, Singh Deo demanded a survey. He said it is essential to know the
number of people died; how long they were exposed to radiation; any relation
between radiation and cancer; measures to be undertaken to protect them and
measures taken to protect the persons employed in the atomic plants.
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