IGCAR : Annual Report - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

Shri S.C. Chetal, B.E.(Mech), is a Distinguished Scientist & Director, Reactor
Engineering Group at IGCAR. Since 1971, he has been engaged in the field of fast
reactor engineering. He has made significant contributions towards design of
FBTR sodium systems and components. He has also contributed to the material
selection, manufacturing technology, R&D, design and manufacturing of 500
MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor. He is a member of many professional institutions
and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He has
received National Technology Award 2000 from DRDO for significant contributions
in the field of high purity titanium sponge production, Indian Nuclear
Society Award 2003 for contributions towards nuclear related high technology and National Design
Awaard-2007 by Institution of Engineers (India). His interests apart from Fast Reactor Engineering
include pressure vessel and materials technology. He has to his credit 300 publications in
Journals/Symposia/Conferences.
Shri R.N. Jayaraj is presently the Chief Executive of Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC),
Hyderabad. He is a Mechanical Engineer, graduated from Osmania University.
After successful completion of one-year orientation course in Nuclear
Engineering from the 17th batch of BARC Training School, he joined Atomic Fuels
Division of BARC and contributed in the production of metallic uranium fuel
assemblies for CIRUS reactor and development of fuel assemblies for DHRUVA
reactor. After his transfer to NFC, he played a key role in establishing the assembly
plant and successfully fabricated all the core sub-assemblies, for the first time
in India, required for FBTR. He was instrumental in scaling up of production of
fuel bundles required for all the PHWRs, thus consistently meeting the requirements of Nuclear Power
Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL). He has to his credit the indigenous development of various equipment
for critical processes involving welding, machining centers and assembly stations, thus creating a
strong base for establishing self-reliance in PHWR fuel manufacturing. He played pioneering role in standardizing
the manufacturing processes for the fuel bundles required for 540 Mwe PHWRs. He served the
Department for the last 32 years in various capacities in different Units and gained rich experience in
developmental and production of fuel for Thermal Research Reactors, PHWRs and BWRs. Shri Jayaraj,
besides being a Member of IGC Council, is also on the Boards of UCIL and IREL.
Shri H.S. Kamath, B.E (Metallurgy), is a Distinguished Scientist and Director of
the Nuclear Fuels Group in BARC. He has been associated with the development
of plutonium bearing nuclear fuels for the last 35 years, which started with the
fabrication of fuel for 'PURNIMA' in 1970-1972. His main area of work is in the
development of uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuels for nuclear power
programme. He has made important contributions in this field both in laboratory
scale as well as industrial scale activities. His most important contribution has
been the setting up of the industrial scale MOX fuel fabrication plant at Tarapur.
Shri Kamath is the recipient of Indian Nuclear Society Award for the year 2003
in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of nuclear fuel fabrication.
Prof P.K. Kaw, Ph.D (Physics) from IIT Delhi, is the Director of Institute for
Plasma Research, Gandhinagar since 1986. The Institute has pioneered plasma
physics research in India which includes design, development and fabrication of
two tokamaks, ADITYA and SST 1, research work on a large number of fundamental
plasma physics experiments and work on industrial applications of plasma
physics. ADITYA was the first tokamak to discover intermittency in edge and
SOL turbulence. The Institute also spearheaded India's case for participation in
ITER and is now the nodal domestic agency for ITER. Prof. Kaw's personal
research work in this period includes physics of intermittency, drift waves and
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