Proceedings of the DAE-BRNS theme meeting on chemistry in atomic energy programme

The pivotal role played by chemistry in all the stages of atomic energy programme, right from mineral exploration, materials processing, fuel fabrication, coolant, control and structural materials, reactor chemistry, fuel recycling and actinide partitioning to radioactive waste management, has been explicitly demonstrated in the last few decades. The discoveries and developments in chemical sciences that have contributed to the formulation and successful implementation of our nuclear programme are enormous. It is to the credit of all our colleagues of Department of Atomic Energy to reckon the chronology of mile stones in our programme and how they place our nation on the global map of nuclear energy. The theme meeting on Chemistry in Atomic Energy Programme is an outcome of the thinking of some of our colleagues in BARC to take stock of the accomplishments made hitherto and to prepare a roadmap to meet the challenges of future advanced reactor regimes, while safeguarding the strategic interests of mankind. It is not out-of-context to record here that India, with its rich experience, is poised to play a major role in the global nuclear power programme, through bilateral international collaborations as well as on the platform of IAEA. Papers relevant to INIS are indexed separately