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B A R C N E W S L E T T E RThe President Visits BARCB A R C N E W S L E T T E R
ISSUE NO. 335 NOV-DEC 2013 1
The President Visits BARCThe Graduation Function of the BARC Training School is an annual event organized by the HRDD for the successful completion of the training programme by the Graduating Officers. Toppers from various disciplines are also conferred the Homi Bhabha Prizes. The Hon’ble President of India, Shri. Pranab Mukherjee, was the Chief Guest at the function this year, held on November 15, 2013 at the Central Complex Auditorium, BARC, Trombay. Shri K. Sankaranarayanan, Governor of Maharashtra, presided over the function. Shri Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra graced the function. The President awarded the Homi Bhabha prizes to the top ranking Officers in each discipline. Dr. R.K. Sinha, Chairman, AEC delivered the welcome address. On this occasion the President also inaugurated (by remote control) the five following advanced facilities that have been recently set up by BARC. Shri. Sekhar Basu, Director, BARC, briefly described the facilities and requested the President to inaugurate them.
1. The integrated facility for Proving Advanced Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (PARTH), built jointly by
BARC and NPCIL at Tarapur. This will demonstrate the
effectiveness of the various advanced safety systems
(emergency core cooling; natural circulation) and
performance of the refuelling system incorporated
in the design of the Advanced Heavy Water Reactor
(AHWR), a technology demonstrator for thorium
utilization.
2. The hot commissioning of the Waste
Immobilization Plant at Kalpakkam. This large
comprehensive facility, co-located with reprocessing
plant of BARC at Kalpakkam, facilitates the
management of all types of radioactive wastes
generated during reprocessing of spent fuel.
Besides vitrification of high level liquid waste, this
facility also addresses handling and management
of intermediate level waste, separation of residual
uranium from high level liquid waste, management
of organic waste etc.
3. The Actinide Separation Demonstration Facility
at Tarapur, addresses the challenging technology of
separating long-lived minor actinides from high level
liquid waste generated during reprocessing. This
cross-cutting technology referred as “Partitioning
of High Level Liquid Waste” would not only lead to
substantial reduction in the radio-toxicity of long
lived high level wastes, but also reduce the volume
The Honourable President of India addressing the gathering
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The President Visits BARCB A R C N E W S L E T T E R
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to nearly one tenth of its present level for ultimate
disposal in a geological repository.
4. The Experimental Accelerator-Driven sub-
critical System (Ex-ADS) at Trombay, BARC, is
the key first step in the Indian ADS roadmap.
A sub-critical reactor operated with a stream
of non-fission neutrons can resolve the main
global concerns about nuclear power and also
transmute nuclear waste. This experimental
facility will verify and validate various reactor
physics parameters through computations. India
becomes one of the very few countries in the
world to have such an experimental low power
ADS facility.
5. Radiation-aided chemical removal of pollutants in
flue gases arising from burning fossil fuel has been
recently demonstrated, in collaboration with BHEL
(Ranipet), at the Electron Beam Centre, BARC. The
acidic oxides of nitrogen and sulphur present in the
flue gases, when exposed to a beam of electrons,
are converted (by radiolytic reactions) in to non-
polluting ammonium salts (nitrate and sulphate),
which are also useful as fertilisers. An indigenous
DC electron accelerator (1 MeV) developed by BARC
has been used for this purpose.
In addition to the above, the President also
dedicated to the Nation the most popular variety
of BARC-developed mutant groundnut, TAG 24
(Trombay - Akola - Groundnut). To date, BARC
has developed 41 improved crop mutant varieties,
especially of pulses and oil seeds, which have been
released for commercial cultivation.
Dr. R.K. Sinha, Chairman AEC, presenting a memento of a 3D printed model of Cirus and Dhruva Research Reactors to the President