On Aug. 21, 2014...a justice in this state’s court ordered an official inquiry into allegations that the nuclear industry exposed tens of thousands of workers and villagers to dangerous levels of radiation, heavy metals or other carcinogens, including arsenic, from polluted rivers and underground water supplies that have percolated through the food chain -- from fish swimming in the Subarnarekha River to vegetables washed in its tainted water...Center for Public Integrity has reviewed hundreds of pages of personal testimony and clinical reports in the case that...include epidemiological and medical surveys warning of a high incidence of infertility, birth defects and congenital illnesses among women living near the industry’s facilities..Charting the trail of disease and ill health back to its source...the alpha radiation they had recorded came from the mines, mills and fabrication plants of East Singhbhum...where the state-owned Uranium Corporation of India Ltd is sitting on a mountain of 174,000 tons of raw uranium....According to the uranium corporation’s own records, 17 UCIL laborers died in 1994, 14 more in 1995, 19 in 1996 and 21 in 1997. The records seen by the Center reveal no cause of the deaths, but critics claim most if not all were radiation-related...The mining corporation dismissed the 1995 Jawaharlal Nehru University study, asserting that it failed to link these health problems conclusively to radiation exposure.The mining corporation dismissed the 1995 Jawaharlal Nehru University study, asserting that it failed to link these health problems conclusively to radiation exposure.