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Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)

The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) was constituted in 1983 by the President of India to carry out certain regulatory and safety functions under the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 and the Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986. The headquarter is in Mumbai.
Dangerous nuclear delusion
May 2010
Praful Bidwai

Small farmers are being driven off their land in Maharashtra to make way for the Indian government's planned "nuclear park" - to be built by the French company AREVA. Yet, nuclear energy is notoriously slow, costly, inefficient and dangerous to develop, as demonstrated by a global decline in...

Yawning nuclear void
May 2010
Praful Bidwai

The Mayapuri cobalt-60 episode shows Delhi University scientists were reprehensible and proves again that the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board is too inept, unreliable and compromised to perform its assigned functions. We need another agency.

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