Friday, September 1, 2017

Kamachi Mudali is new CEO of Heavy Water Board

Chennai:
Dr U Kamachi Mudali, Outstanding Scientist and Group Director at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam is now the Chief Executive of Heavy Water Board (HWB), one of the industry units of Department of Atomic Energy at Mumbai.
HWB has seven plants in the country at Kota, Thal, Talcher, Hazira, Baroda, Manuguru and Tuticorin for producing heavy water required for pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) operating in India, and also involved in developing many other useful materials of relevance to DAE and society (Boron, Sodium, Oxygen-18, Potassium, Organic Solvents, etc.).
Dr Kamachi, who received many prestigious awards including Tamil Nadu Scientist Award, Meritorious Award in Corrosion Excellence from NACE India, hails from Brammadesam, near Anthiyur, Erode and had his early education at Government High School, Anthiyur in Erode and Applied Science degrees at Coimbatore Institute of Technology and PSG College of Technology

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