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India’s Nuclear Power Journey

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Dr. MR Srinivasan in conversation with Jahnavi Phalkey

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Nuclear energy became the promise and premise of power in the short period between the use of atomic weapons at the end of World War II in 1945 and Indian independence which followed shortly thereafter in 1947. Few could have expected a newly independent country to lay the foundations of a credible nuclear energy programme within a decade, and India embarked on precisely such a journey, in fact, a year before formal independence from Imperial rule with the establishment, in 1946, of a committee for research into atomic energy under Bhabha.

Apsara, India’s first research reactor, went critical in 1956 and today, there is a network of power generating reactors across the country. The programme has had an interesting domestic history as well as international dimensions, including that much discussed Indo-US Nuclear Deal. Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan, former head of Power Projects Engineering Division, Founder Chairman, Nuclear Power Corporation as well as former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, has been intimately involved in this story from the outset, in the planning and execution of the majority of functioning reactors today.

We will explore the intricacies of this history with Dr. M R Srinivasan who will be in conversation with Jahnavi Phalkey, Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru and author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth-Century India.
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