Chennai:
Sekhar Basu, a renowned nuclear scientist, and one of the
architects of India’s 80 MWt compact Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR), which
will power Arihant, the country’s nuclear-powered submarine has been honoured
with the prestigious ‘Padma Shri’ Award.
Dr Sekhar Basu was heading the BARC facilities in
Kalpakkam since 1988 and was responsible for commissioning of Land Based
Nuclear Submarine Propulsion Plant at Kalpakkam.
This shore-based reactor at Kalpakkam started operating
from September 22, 2006. An exact replica of this has gone into Arihant, which
has been launched at Visakhapatnam.
Presently, he is the Director of Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre (BARC) and also the Chief Executive of the Nuclear Recycle Board (NRB).
Basu graduated from Veermata Jijabai Technological
Institute (VJTI), University of Mumbai in mechanical engineering in 1974 and
completed post graduate training programme in Nuclear Engineering at BARC in
1975.
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.
He was assigned
the responsibility of Nuclear Recycle Programme and constructed reprocessing
and waste management plants at Tarapur and Kalpakkam. A new reprocessing plant
named ‘Power Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant’ has been built under his guidance
at Tarapur.
After taking over
as Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 2012, Dr. Sekhar Basu is
associated with research in basic and engineering sciences covering physics,
chemistry, bio-medical, materials etc. Apart
from pursuing programmes of BARC in various strategic areas, he is also working
towards major expansion programmes of BARC in food and health sector.
Recently, he has
also been involved in the international Fusion Reactor Programme, ITER, France.
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