IGCAR : Annual Report - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

Shri S.D. Misra, B.E (Electrical & Mechanical Engineering) is presently the
Director of Nuclear Recycle Group at BARC. He is from 13th Batch of BARC
Training School and has been involved in the Back End activities of Nucler Fuel
Cycle. He was a member of the team that pioneered setting up of the first
Vitrification Plant in the country. Shri Misra was responsible for design and construction
of vitrification plants at Trombay & Kalpakkam. He was also instrumental
in solving all the problems faced in the first resin fixation facility at
Narora Atomic Power Project and made it operational. Shri Misra has participated
in a number of symposia and seminars on radioactive waste management and
has also worked as an expert on various technical committees of International Atomic Energy Agency.
Presently he is a Member of International Radioactive Waste Technical Committee (WATEC) of IAEA.
He has also served as Director, Purchase & Stores, DPS. In this capacity, he has successfully overcome the
problems of technology control regime and made available some of the critical stores for the programmes
of the Department. Presently, as Director, Nuclear Recycle Group, he is holding the responsibility of setting
up and operation of Reprocessing and Waste Management Plants at various sites in the country.
Shri. M. Rajan steered the Safety Group at IGCAR till 31st December 2007, the
day on which he superannuated. He obtained his B.E. (Hons) in Chemical
Engineering at Annamalai University in 1972. He underwent one year advanced
course in Nuclear Technology at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai during
1972-73. His main contributions in the past 30 years are on development
works related to the use of sodium as a coolant in Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactors
and Engineering Safety. He has designed and constructed many high temperature
sodium systems and developed many components & methods for the Fast
Breeder Reactors. He is a fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering,
Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers and Institution of Engineers.
Shri P.V. Ramalingam is an Outstanding Scientist and presently Director of
Reactor Operation and Maintenance Group in IGCAR. He graduated in Electrical
Engineering with Honours from Madras University in 1969. He worked in CIRUS
reactor, BARC from 1969 to 1975. He was transferred to IGCAR in 1975. He was
actively involved in preparing the FBTR station documents and training the
operation staff. He was responsible for commissioning the primary sodium system
and its auxiliary circuits of FBTR and he had the privilege of making the first
criticality of FBTR on October 18, 1985. He was closely associated in taking the
reactor power in stages to the power level of 17.4 MWt. He was responsible for
implementing many improvements in FBTR for increasing the availability factor of the reactor and in the
recently concluded 13th irradiation campaign the availability factor was 94 %. He has to his credit 51 publications
in journals/symposia/conferences.
Shri A.L.N. Rao, B.E.(Electrical), is presently the Chairman & Chief Executive of
the Heavy Water Board. He joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre as 15th batch
trainee in the year 1971. He was awarded Junior License Certificate in 1974 and
took independent charge of the unit consisting reactor, turbine, generator and
associated utilities and control systems of TAPS. As unit control engineer he
operated the unit safely and without any accidents. He has handled emergency
situations and took immediate action to bring the reactors under safe conditions.
Shri A.L.N. Rao participated in the first refuelling operations which consisted of
transferring the irradiated fuel bundles from the reactor core to fuel storage pool
and loaded the fresh fuel bundles from storage pool into the reactor under 60 ft. of water. He had also
replaced the core components which was a challenging task. In the year 1978, he obtained Senior License
Certificate and took independent charge of the complete plant in shifts. Shri A.L.N. Rao moved from
Nuclear Power Board to Heavy Water Board in the year 1984. He closely followed up the project activities
of the Captive Power Plant of Heavy Water Plant (Manuguru) being set up at Aswapuram in Khammam
district of Andhra Pradesh. In the year 1987 he took over as Operation Manager of Captive Power Plant.
He has successfully monitored the erection of equipments and carried out precommissioning and commis-
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