BARC director A K Mohanty appointed as new Atomic Energy Commission chairman

BARC director A K Mohanty appointed as new Atomic Energy Commission chairman

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: May 03 2023

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Renowned physicist and director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Ajit Kumar Mohanty has been appointed as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and the secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy.
Mohanty succeeds K N Vyas to the posts that oversee India's nuclear programme and forays into harnessing atomic power for civilian needs.
Mohanty was appointed as the BARC director in March 2019.
Mohanty worked in several areas of nuclear physics, covering collision energy from the sub-Coulomb barrier to the relativistic regime using the Pelletron accelerator at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), PHENIX and CMS experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the United States and CERN, Geneva.
He served the Indian Physics Association (IPA) as its general secretary and later, as its president.
He has twice been the CERN Scientific Associate, first during 2002-2004 and again during 2010-2011.
The Atomic Energy Commission of India is the governing body of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) is under the direct charge of the Prime Minister.
The Indian Atomic Energy Commission was set up on 3 August 1948 under the late Department of Scientific Research.

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