| ANUSHAKTI
:
Atomic
Energy In India
India’s
achievements in the fields of Nuclear Science
and Technology are well accepted and
acknowledged at the international level.
Excellent infrastructure and years of
dedicated research and development activities
vigorously pursued by India has directly
resulted in making significant progress in
nuclear power generation and allied fields and
attaining scientific and technological self
reliance. Exhaustive and comprehensive
research and development studies in the fields
of Nuclear Power and Reactor Technologies,
Isotope Applications and Radiation
Technologies, Accelerator and Laser Technology
Programme, Health and Safety aspects of
radiation are carried out at the four R&D
centers viz. BARC,
IGCAR,
VECC
and CAT
by DAE. Strong
emphasis on basic and applied research in a
number of core disciplines in Science and
Engineering has enabled a significant level of
synergy between growth of technology and basic
research in these institutions, benefiting not
only Atomic Energy, but also a number of other
sectors.
|
ATOMIC
ENERGY IN INDIA |
| A
Preface to its Future Perspectives |
| Strategy
for Nuclear Energy |
| Evolution
of PHWR Design |
| Fast
Breeder Reactors |
| Heavy
Water |
| Nuclear
Fuels and structural Components |
| Back
End of Nuclear Fuel Cycle |
| Research
& Development |
| Conclusion |
Some
of the significant achievements in areas other than
power generation include
-
Development
of 22 different varieties of high yield seeds
through radiation induced mutation.(10 of pulses,8
of ground nut, 2 of mustard and 1 each of rice and
jute).
-
In
the medical applications of radioisotopes – six
lakhs patients undergoing diagnostic
investigations and 15-20 lakhs patients receiving
radiation therapy every year through dedicated and
affiliated centres.
-
In
the industrial applications of radioisotopes
scenes - ~1000 industrial radiographic cameras are
in routine use. Hydrology and tracer applications
also has made a significant progress in carrying
out underground leak detection, silt movement
studies in harbours as well as mapping of ground
water resources and their courses. Many more new
applications are getting appended too.
Research
Reactors:
Provides an ideal platform for basic and applied
research in a number of disciplines.
The research reactors have been used for
- Test
irradiation of nuclear fuel, for developing
structural materials, components for reactors, and
for training personnel needed to operate the power
stations.
- Extensive
research in fission physics, solid state physics
and radiation chemistry
DHRUVA
Reactor
at BARC was designed, constructed and commissioned by
Indian Engineers and scientists. Natural U is the fuel
used and heavy water as moderator and coolant, Dhruva
enabled India to attain self sufficiency in the
production of radioisotopes
Kamini,
a 30 kWt reactor at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic
Research at Kalpakkam, achieved criticality in October
1996 for providing neutron radiography facilities and is
a small but significant step towards utilisation of our
vast thorium reserves. It is the only operating reactor
in the world using U233 fuel. Some of the larger
facilities built by DAE are now available to university
researchers through Inter-university Consortium for DAE
facilities.
Besides
carrying out research at its own research centres, the
DAE provides full support to seven aided institutions
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