IGCAR : Annual Report - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

anomalous transport, MARFES, solitons, laser fusion, anomalous stopping effects, dusty plasmas, nonneutral
plasmas, quark gluon plasmas, etc. Earlier he had held positions like Princeton University Plasma
Physics Laboratory Research Staff, Professor at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and at
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory before taking over as Director, Plasma Physics Program at Physical
Research Ahmedabad in 1982. He played a key role in initiating tokamak physics program in India. He has
more than 284 research papers to his credit in international journals. He has several honours and delivered
important lectures. Artsimovitch Memorial lecture at the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference in 1992,
Invited talk on International Energy Research at the APS Centennial celebrations (1999) in Atlanta,
Georgia and a presentation on the International impact of USDOE Fusion Theory Program to the NSF-NRC
Panel Chaired by C F Kennel, San Diego are just a few of them to name. Prof Kaw was also the Chairman of
the International Fusion Research Council (IFRC) of IAEA from 2000 to 2007.
Shri H.S. Kushwaha, B.Sc., M.Tech.(IIT, Kanpur), is presently the Director of
Health, Safety and Environment Group at BARC. He has made significant and
important contributions in the design and analysis of nuclear structures, components
and piping of Indian Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR). He has
done pioneering work in the area of seismic design and analysis of 500 MWe
PHWR being built at Tarapur, Maharashtra. He has developed several finite element
computer programmes in the field of structural mechanics, heat transfer
and fluid mechanics. He has developed an improved finite element method using
upwinding schemes to solve three dimensional advection-diffusion equation. He
is an active member of Project Design Safety Committee of PHWRs/FBR, Civil Engineering Safety
Committee and Safety Review Committee for Operating Plants (SARCOP) constituted by AERB, Mumbai.
He has published around 400 papers/reports in national and international journals.
Shri R. Natarajan, a Chemical Engineer from the Annamalai University, joined
the Department of Atomic Energy in 1975. He is presently the Director,
Reprocessing Group in IGCAR. Under his leadership, the CORAL facility, for establishing
the process technology for the reprocessing of fast reactor fuels, was
designed, erected and commissioned. He led the team which has successfully
completed the reprocessing of fast reactor spent fuel, with a burnup of as high as
155 GWd/t with Plutonium rich fuels, for the first time in the world. As Director
of Reprocessing Group, he is responsible for the R&D activities of fast reactor fuel
reprocessing and setting up of Demonstration as well as the commercial PFBR
fuel reprocessing plants. His specialization is in the design process flowsheets and plant design. His has
also experiences in the design and operation of Thorium-Uranium cycles. He has participated in the irradiated
thorium fuel reprocessing campaigns at the Reprocessing Development Laboratory and the
Uranium - 233 recovered is used as fuel for the reactor KAMINI. He has interests in solvent extraction
process modeling, extraction equipment design, design of feed clarification systems of high active solutions,
acid recovery systems, system designs of radioactive offgas circuits and ventilation design of radiochemical
plants. He has over ninety five technical presentations and publications to his credit. He has won
prestigious NOCIL Award for Excellence in Design and Development of Process Plant and Equipment for
the year 2005 for his contribution in the development of fast reactor fuel reprocessing. He is also the recipient
of Indian Nuclear Society's INS award for the year 2006 for his contributions in Nuclear Fuel Cycle
technologies.
Shri Y.C. Manjunatha, Director, Engineering Services Group of Indira Gandhi
Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, is a M. Tech. in Electrical Engineering
from IIT, Madras and belongs to the 16th batch of BARC Training School,
Department of Atomic Energy. He steers one of the largest multidisciplinary
groups in the Centre which focuses on providing reliable and robust services
through cutting edge technologies and methodologies. Some of his major contributions
are development and sustenance of infrastructural works of IGCAR &
GSO involving civil, electrical, air conditioning and ventilation, communication,
workshop and QA activities. He has published more than 10 papers.
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