India's heavy water project comes of age
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05/04/2009
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Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
By K S Parthasarathy
Techonology for heavy water is being developed. This may lower energy consumption by 60 pc.
It is six decades since Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the architect of nuclear India, initiated moves to make heavy water as a strategic material; he dreamt that India should produce large quantities of it indigenously. He converted his dream into a resolution and got it approved by the Board of Research on Atomic Energy at its second meeting held in Bombay on April 9 and 10, 1948.