CHENNAI: Distinguished scientist
C G Karhadkar
on Friday assumed office as the director of
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
,
Kalpakkam
. He took charge from B Venkatraman, who superannuated on Friday.
Karhadkar was earlier the director of the reactor group at
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
, Mumbai.
Karhadkar completed his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in the year 1987.
He graduated from the 31st batch of
BARC Training School
, Mumbai.
In 1988, he joined the Reactor Operations Division of Reactor Group of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre at Trombay, Mumbai, and served in various capacities in his 36 years of service at BARC.
As director of Reactor Group, he was responsible for the overall research reactor programme of BARC including safe and efficient operation, utilization, decommissioning and planning for new research reactors.
He has worked extensively on improving fuel performance of Dhruva reactor. This included changing the material specifications, interacting with the national vendors to develop the relevant material, studying and improving the manufacturing process and ultimately was largely responsible for full power operation of Dhruva on sustained basis.
He has also guided and implemented several safety enhancements and upgradation of research reactors to meet the present-day safety standards and also to combat obsolescence, without compromising the availability and capacity factors for the reactor.
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