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October 14, 2009
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- 'Radioactive' ship anchors at Alang
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- NEW DELHI: The shipbreaking yards of Alang have once again been
hit by controversy, following the anchoring of a ship from US
allegedly laden with radioactive material at Bhavnagar.
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The civil society has raised an outcry over the docking of 'Platinum
II - earlier named 'SS Oceanic and 'SS Independence - allegedly
carrying polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and high levels of
asbestos, which it contends have been banned by the US Environment
Protection Agency
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