SRM University, Haryana and Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership (GCNEP) conducted a seminar recently on Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technology in Healthcare, Environment and Industries. The GCNEP, a unit of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), for the first time organised a seminar as inter-institutional academic activity to share knowledge on applications of Isotope and Radiation Technology (I&RT) with young researchers, faculty and local industrialist.
The seminar was inaugurated by eminent nuclear scientist Dr Kl Ramakumar, director RC & IG, BARC and chairman, advisory council, GCNEP. He appealed to the youth that this country should have surplus energy for its citizens in which nuclear energy has great potential to make the planet earth sustainable. The experts from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) delivered lectures to the participants on food safety and preservation, environmental application related to sewage sludge hygienisation and textile effluent treatment, cancer diagnosis and treatment, radiotracer techniques in industries, radiopharmaceuticals, new varieties of seeds etc.
A special lecture was arranged by Board of Research in Nuclear Science (BRNS), a unit of DAE for supporting various research projects on radioisotopes and radiation technology applications. This would enable researchers to dispel myth about I&RT and open new avenues of research in the area of I&RT with academic institutions like SRM University Delhi-NCR. About 100 young PhD scholars, PG students of technology, young faculty have been informed on the potentials of the technologies already available with GCNEP, DAE and how to groom young technologists as entrepreneurs was given thrust during these two days.