Tanzania, April 30 -- Dar es Salaam. The Tanzania Atomic Energy Commission (TAEC) has managed to effectively intervene in several radiation prevention incidents, including 17 that could potentially put the lives of Tanzanians at great risk.

Speaking during a meeting with editors on Monday, April 29, the TAEC executive director, Prof Lazaro Busagala, said it was in light of general obliviousness to what atomic energy and radiation in general entail that TAEC was prioritising public education on the subject matter.

In one of the incidents, Prof Busagala recounts, an individual started selling uranium materials to farmers so that they could put them in their cereals to prevent weevils.

And, he said, it was about to become a business.

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