BASU SEKHAR - Alumnus of the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Mumbai, Basu joined BARC Training school after completing BE in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI in 1974.He Joined BARC on 1st August, 1975.
New Delhi: Senior nuclear scientist Sekhar Basu has been appointed as Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.
A nuclear submarine propulsion and nuclear reprocessing and waste
management expert, Sekhar Basu will be the new director of the Bhabha
Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai, an official said on Monday.
Basu, 59, is currently the chief executive officer of the Nuclear Recycling Board and will assume his new charge on Tuesday.
An alumnus of the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Mumbai, he started his career with BARC in 1974.
Basu has functioned as project director of the Plutonium Recycling Project at Kalpakkam, which led to the construction of India's first indigenous pressurised water reactor, fuelled by enriched uranium.
Later, he was involved in commissioning a land-based nuclear submarine propulsion plant in Kalpakkam.
Basu has also been working in the field of nuclear recycling and built nuclear reprocessing and waste management plants at Tarapur, Mumbai and Kalpakkam.
Basu succeeds R.K. Sinha who was elevated to the post of chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and secretary, atomic energy, last month.
Basu, 59, is currently the chief executive officer of the Nuclear Recycling Board and will assume his new charge on Tuesday.
An alumnus of the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Mumbai, he started his career with BARC in 1974.
Basu has functioned as project director of the Plutonium Recycling Project at Kalpakkam, which led to the construction of India's first indigenous pressurised water reactor, fuelled by enriched uranium.
Later, he was involved in commissioning a land-based nuclear submarine propulsion plant in Kalpakkam.
Basu has also been working in the field of nuclear recycling and built nuclear reprocessing and waste management plants at Tarapur, Mumbai and Kalpakkam.
Basu succeeds R.K. Sinha who was elevated to the post of chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and secretary, atomic energy, last month.
Basu, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Recycle Board, is expected to assume charge of his new posting tomorrow.
He was also the Project Director of the Plutonium Recycling Project at Kalpakkam, which built India's first indigenous Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) which is powered by enriched uranium.
Basu succeeds R K Sinha, who has been elevated as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy last month.
Sekhar Basu, Chief Executive, Nuclear Recycle Board of
the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, took over as Director
of BARC from Ratan Kumar Sinha on Tuesday. Mr. Sinha became Chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission on April 30, 2012.
Mr.
Basu is one of the architects of India’s 80 MWt compact Pressurised
Water Reactor (PWR), which will power Arihant, the country’s
nuclear-powered submarine.
An engineering graduate
from the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai, he joined the
BARC Training School in 1974. He was absorbed in the Reactor
Engineering Division of BARC and completed the development of fuel for
Boiling Water Reactors. He then started pursuing BARC programmes in
strategic areas.
Mr. Basu was shifted to Kalpakkam
in 1988 and became the Director of BARC Facilities there. He was also
the Project Director, Plutonium Recycling Project (PRP), at Kalpakkam,
which built India’s first compact PWR. This shore-based reactor at
Kalpakkam started operating from September 22, 2006. An exact replica of
this has gone into Arihant, which was launched at Visakhapatnam on July
26, 2009.
He later became the Chief Executive,
Nuclear Recycle Board, and built the reprocessing and waste management
plants at Tarapur and Kalpakkam. A new reprocessing plant called Power
Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant at Tarapur has been built under his
guidance.
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