TORONTO — News reports in India say a radioactive machine that killed a scrap dealer and seriously injured six others was purchased in Canada.
Indian newspapers reported on the weekend that the University of Delhi purchased the machine — a gamma cell that contains the radioactive substance Cobalt-60 — from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. in 1968.
Indian police said last week that the scrap dealer died on April 8., while trying to recover the steel and lead cladding by prying open and melting the radioactive cell.