November 30, 2009 9:47 AM

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Probe ordered in Kaiga radioactive contamination

The Government said that an inquiry into the incident of radioactive contamination at the aiga nuclear plant in Karnataka is already in progress and that answers will be found soon.<br/><br/>Minister of state for science and technology Prithviraj Chavan said, even if it was an act of a disgruntled individual, it has to be seen and an inquiry is already in progress.<br/><br/>However, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited has launched a probe by an expert committee on how a drinking water cooler in the high-security Kaiga plant was contaminated with Tritium, that led to some 50 people falling ill. <br/><br/>Meanwhile, Atomic Energy Commission Chief Anil Kakodkar said somebody deliberately put radioactive tritium in a water cooler at the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant.

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