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Indian scientists set to break West's nuke monopoly

 

Indo-Asian News Service

 

Kolkata, May 7, 2005

 

In a major leap for India's nuclear research, scientists in Kolkata

have reached the advanced stage of constructing a superconducting

cyclotron that could break the monopoly of the West in the field.

 

To be operational in two years, this powerful cyclotron being

developed at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) here, namely

K500, would be the seventh of its kind in the world. There are three

such cyclotrons in the US, one in Canada, one in Italy and one in the

Netherlands.

 

"K500 would be indigenous and three times more powerful than the

existing cyclotron here operational since 1980. It will be used by

our scientists for carrying out highly advanced research experiments

in nuclear science," the centre's director Bikash Sinha said.

 

"The majority of components were fabricated in the country and some

of them, including the superconducting coil, at the VECC itself."

"The construction implies an important technological fallout in the

field of cryogenics and superconducting magnets.

 

"It has applications in the areas of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

for medical diagnostics, energy storage devices, rapid transport

utilising magnet levitation," Sinha said.

 

"The international nuclear physics community has also shown a keen

interest in using this facility for collaborative research. We want

to make it internationally available and it is our fond desire that

scientists from abroad outsource from us," he informed.

 

During construction, the superconducting magnet, the largest in the

country, was energised to produce a very high magnetic field of 48

kilogauss. The energising coils, through which several hundred

amperes of current flows, remains at minus 269 degrees centigrade

with the help of about 300 litres of liquid helium in a special

vessel called cryostat. The performance was highly satisfactory.

 

"Everything went off very smoothly. The coil was perfectly immersed

and nothing happened," said Sinha.

What is K-500

 

K-500 is a superconducting cyclotron is being constructed at VECC

Kolkata.

 

This will be constructed in two years

 

It would be the seventh of its kind in the world. US has three, one

each in Canada, Italy and Netherlands

 

This will be helpful in highly advanced research experiments in nuke

science

 

It has an important technological fallout in the field of cryogenics

and superconducting magnets

 

 

K-500 is indigenous and three times more powerful than the existing

cyclotron operational since 1980

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