Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee visited Trombay on October 31, 2002 to dedicate to the nation the new facilities of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He declared open by remote control, six facilities viz. Krushak (Krushi Utpadan Sanrakshan Kendra) at Lasalgaon (Maharashtra), Nuclear Desalination Demonstration Plant (NDDP) at Kalpakkam (Tamil Nadu), Medical Cyclotron Positron Emission Tomography Facility at the Radiation Medicine Centre of BARC, Mumbai and the refurbished research reactor CIRUS, Uranium Thorium Separation Facility and Waste Immobilization Plant (WIP) at Trombay.

The Desalination Plant is meant for providing process water for the nuclear power station at Kalpakkam and drinking water for the neighbouring people Krushak is a facility for sprout control in onion and conservation of agricultural produce the Medical Cyclotron is a sophisticated facility for diagnosis of cancer, cardiac, neurological and psychiatric disorders CIRUS after refurbishment is now ready to serve for another couple of decades U-Th Separation Facility is for processing irradiated thorium rods from the research reactors at Trombay and the WIP is for the management of radioactive liquid waste generated during reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from research reactors at BARC.

The Prime Minister also gave away the Indian Nuclear Society and DAE awards.

In the picture above, Shri Vajpayee is inaugurating the Waste Immobilisation Plant at Trombay.

INDEX

• Address by the Prime Minister at the Founder’s Day Function of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, on October 31, 2002
• Statement by Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and the Leader of the Indian Delegation, at the 46th General Conference, IAEA, Vienna, 18th September 2002
• Indigenous Development of Miniature Underwater Radiation Resistant CCTV Camera for Remotised Inspection of Coolant Channels of PHWRs: R. K. Puri, A. K. Haruray, M. Padamanabhan, H. M. Bapat & Manjit Singh Division of Remote Handling & Robotics, BARC
• Kitchen Waste Based Biogas Plant: S. P. Kale and S. T. Mehetre, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division Bhabha Atomic Research Center
• Limb Salvage with an Indian Prosthesis: TMH-NICE Dr. A. Puri, Dr. M. Agarwal, Dr. Ashok Mohan and Dr. K. A. Dinshaw Tata Memorial Hospital
• NPCIL’s Performance during the year 2001-02
• Emergency Response Plans in DAE: An Overview
• NEWS: BARC Transfers Technology to M/s. Senergy Intellution, BARC develops faster supercomputer version, VASVIK Award to CMD, IRE, Enterprise Excellence Award, 14th All India Essay Contest on Nuclear Science and Technology