BARC
A premier multi-disciplinary Nuclear Research Centre of India having excellent infrastructure for advanced Research and Development with expertise covering the entire spectrum of Nuclear Science and Engineering and related areas
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3 organisations in IN
What these terms mean
Every classification on this page, defined. These are controlled-vocabulary terms, so the same word means the same thing on every profile.
- National laboratory
- A state-funded laboratory operating at national scale, usually running facilities no single university could support.
- Research institute
- A public or non-profit research body. Frequently operates devices it did not commercially develop.
- Fission
- Advanced and small modular fission reactor developers, plus established reactor vendors.
- Fusion
- Organizations pursuing energy from nuclear fusion, and their dedicated supply chain.
In BARC’s own words
Quoted from the organisation’s own site as we archived it. Their description of themselves, not ours, and not a claim this site has checked.
BARC is the mother of R&D institutions such as Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) , Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) , Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre(VECC) , etc., which carry out pioneering.
PURNIMA-I was the first experimental fast reactor built in BARC with Plutonium Oxide as the fuel. This 1 Watt reactor was critical on 18th May 1972 and was used for studies of fast reactor physics. It was decommissioned in 1973. More....
PURNIMA-II was 100 mW experimental thermal reactor in BARC achieved criticality on May 10, 1984. This reactor operated on 233 U in the form of Uranyl Nitrate Solution as fuel and light water as both moderator and coolant. PURNIMA-II had maximum neutron flux of 10 7 neutrons/cm 2 /s. The purpose of this reactor was 233 U fuel evaluation and futuristic reactor studies and was decommissioned in 1986. More....
PURNIMA-III was another 233 U based 1 W thermal reactor built in BARC intended for mockup studies for KAMINI reactor. It achieved criticality on November 9, 1990. Like its predecessor, this reactor too operated on light water as both moderator and coolant. PURNIMA-III had maximum neutron flux of 10 8 neutrons/cm 2 /s. This reactor was decommissioned in 1991. More....
Shri Vivek Bhasin, Distinguished Scientist and Director, Nuclear Fuels Group (NFG) of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) took over as the 14 th Director of BARC on September 15, 2023.
Where BARC sits
Composed from records in this dataset, not from outside research. Every figure below is counted from what the site holds, so it moves when the data does.
It is one of 3 we hold in IN.
Related organisations
Others pursuing the same approach, then others in the same country.
Sources
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