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The Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) has announced that it has successfully developed the captious exertion for accumulation of precocious Residual Resistivity Ratio (RRR) Niobium ingots and sheets present connected Wednesday. High RRR Niobium is simply a captious worldly required for a scope of precocious accelerator programs aimed astatine strengthening India’s capabilities successful atomic energy, materials probe and captious applications.
The archetypal precocious RRR Niobium expanse indigenously produced present astatine NFC was handed implicit by Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) president A K Mohanty to Director of Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) U.D. Malshe successful the beingness of NFC main enforcement Komal Kapoor, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Director Vivek Bhasin and different apical scientists present connected Wednesday.
Currently, high-RRR Nb is sourced wholly from a fewer planetary vendors, resulting successful supply-chain vulnerability and dependence for large-scale nationalist accelerator programs. With the NFC processing the indigenous technology, India joins a prime radical of nations with the capableness to produce, process, and suffice high-RRR Nb for cutting-edge accelerator applications.
The NFC is readying for large-scale accumulation of RRR Nb and it marks a large milestone towards achieving technological self-reliance successful India’s superconducting accelerator infrastructure, boosting high-tech manufacturing, and nutrient tangible benefits successful energy, healthcare, and concern applications.
For enlargement of substance and structural requirements of the Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) Program of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), NFC had successfully completed 18 superior projects during 2017-2025 and 9 superior projects are nether execution portion galore projects are nether assorted stages of formulation and planning. All these projects are expected to beryllium completed progressively by 2031-32 and are aimed towards the nonsubjective of realizing 100 GW of atomic powerfulness by 2047 announced by Centre, said a property release.
Átmanirbhar Bharat Gallery
In a related development, AEC Chairman & Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Ajit Kumar Mohanty, inaugurated Átmanirbhar Bharat Gallery of NFC astatine the B.M. Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, successful the G P Birla Archaeological Astronomical and Scientific Research Institute (GPBAASRI).
The assemblage volition showcase the achievements of the NFC and its relation successful establishing India’s independency successful the implicit atomic substance cycle.
Dr. Mohanty besides delivered the G P Birla Memorial Lecture titled “The Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics: India astatine the Frontiers of Basic Science”.
GBPAASRI chairperson Nirmala Birla and institute manager K. Mruthyunjaya Reddy were present.
The distinguished gathering besides included Mr. Komal Kapoor, ECIL Chairman & Managing Director Anurag Kumar and different apical scientists, said a property release.
