{"id":1661,"date":"2009-11-30T07:57:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T13:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2009-11-30T08:02:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:02:46","slug":"india-nuclear-leak-inside-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/india-nuclear-leak-inside-job\/","title":{"rendered":"India nuclear leak &#8216;inside job&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nuclear-leak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1662\" title=\"India nuclear leak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nuclear-leak-280x186.jpg\" alt=\"India nuclear leak\" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nuclear-leak-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nuclear-leak-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nuclear-leak.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>A &#8220;disgruntled&#8221; worker could be behind the leak of a radioactive substance into drinking water at an atomic power plant in southern India, police say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police have moved into the Kaiga plant on the west coast of India, 450km (280 miles) from the city of Bangalore. Fifty-five workers needed medical help for exposure to radiation after tritium contaminated a water cooler. The Kaiga plant is highly protected and outsiders have little access to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both central and state agencies are investigating the matter. A list of people who were on duty on the day the incident took place has been given to the investigators,&#8221; plant director JP Gupta said.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector general of police Gopal Hosur told the BBC that there was no terror link to the incident. &#8220;If that was the case the magnitude would have been bigger.&#8221;He said preliminary inquiries suggested that it was &#8220;an inside job&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Officials suspect that an employee had mixed the radioactive substance into a drinking water cooler meant for staff. Chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar has called it a &#8220;malevolent act&#8221;. Although officials say the leak poses no risk to public safety, there is an element of panic in and around Kaiga. Tritium, also known as Hydrogen-3, is used in research, fusion reactors and neutron generators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India nuclear leak &#8216;inside job&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80],"tags":[2589,2591,2585,2583,2588,2587,2586,2592],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","tag-anil-kakodkar","tag-gopal-hosur","tag-india-nuclear","tag-india-nuclear-leak","tag-indian-atomic-energy-commission","tag-jp-gupta","tag-the-kaiga-plant","tag-tritium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}