Rhys Blakely in Mumbai–The setting was humdrum: the office water cooler, scene of idle chat, gossip swapping and occasional jollity.
The authorities have described what happened there as an “act of mischief”. Yet such a description hardly does justice to an act of workplace revenge so devious and terrifying that it threatens the health not only of its victims but also their unborn children.
A disgruntled worker at a nuclear power plant didn’t fire off an angry e-mail or post compromising pictures of his colleagues on the internet. He spiked the office drinking water with a radioactive isotope.
Fifty-five employees at the high-security Kaiga nuclear power plant, on the west coast of India, 280 miles (450km) from Bangalore, were given emergency medical treatment after they drank the contaminated water. It had been laced with tritium, a substance used for its glow-in-the-dark properties on luminous watch hands and to trigger nuclear bombs. Full story
