HYDERABAD | May 28, 2016: The country has many potential areas for uranium and other atomic minerals and if explored, we can identify more uranium resources which will facilitate installing additional nuclear reactors, said Atomic Energy Commission Chairman and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, Shekar Basu here on Friday.

He was speaking at the inauguration of the new office-cum-residential complex for south central region and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) training school at Cherlapally. The Atomic Minerals Directorate (AMD) Director, A.K. Rai, said the new facility will strengthen the human resources of the organisation.

Dr. Basu also inaugurated the in-house facility of ‘modern centralised national core library’ within the complex for the benefit of students, scholars and academicians for the study of mineralisation of different uranium deposits in the country under the single facility.

The south central region has estimated uranium deposits of 20,000 tonnes in the areas of Chitrial, Lambapur and Peddaguttu in Telangana and Koppunuru in Andhra Pradesh. Nuclear Fuel Complex chairman N. Saibaba, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd MD D. Acharya, ECIL CMD P. Sudhakar and others were present, a press release said. Earlier, Dr. Basu, hailed the contribution of ECIL towards lending a helping hand to the underprivileged and marginalised sections of the society, at a function held here on Friday. As part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity, ECIL has built classrooms, toilets, desks, computers for government schools in Kamalanagar, Nagavaram, Rampally and Chiryal – recognised as best schools by the Telangana government, a press release said. Anjali from Zilla Parishad High School (ZPHS) of Nagavaram and Yasmin Khatoom from ZPHS Rampally narrated how their school infrastructure was on par with the corporate schools now.

(Source: http://www.thehindu.com/)