Baldev Raj

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Baldev Raj is an Indian atomic energy researcher and the Director of the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research. He has obtained his B.Tech. degree in Metallurgy from National Institute of Technology, Raipur (formerly called GEC Raipur) in Chhattisgarh.

The Reactor Research Centre set up at Kalpakkam, India, 80 km south of Chennai in 1971 under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) was renamed Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in 1985. The center is primarily a research facility besides being a nuclear power plant aiding in meeting a percentage of the electricity demands of the country.

It has mastered the technology of reprocessing highly irradiated mixed carbide fuel for the first time in the world.

Mr P.V. Ramalingam is the Director, Reactor Operation and Maintenance Group, IGCAR.