Bhasin cites a medical survey of more than 3, 000 residents, organized by the Bombay-based Bhabha Atomic Research Center, in December last year.

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Bakhtaver Mahajan, a retired scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, was at the grounds with her husband and a friend, both retired scientists as well.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency dismantled 40 nuclear-research facilities before the U.N. inspectors left Iraq, including three uranium-enrichment sites.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has long suspected nuclear weapons research is taking place at the site, just outside Tehran.

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Loomis backed much of Lawrence's work, not least his uranium fission research, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.

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Before he died (and before the first ignition in New Mexico), he wrote a letter to Vannevar Bush, director of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development, which oversaw building of the atomic bombs.

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The Cadarache site lies about 60km (37 miles) inland from Marseille, and has been a nuclear research centre ever since President Charles de Gaulle launched France's atomic energy programme in 1959.

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