BARC Mumbai
BARC Mumbai
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is India’s main nuclear research facility based in Mumbai.BARC was began in 1954, as the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET), and became India’s primary nuclear research centre, taking over charge of most nuclear scientists that were at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. later Homi J. Bhabha’s death in 1966, the centre was renamed as the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. It has a number of nuclear reactors, all of which are used for India’s nuclear power and research programme.
Civilian research
The BARC also guides research in biotechnology at the Gamma Gardens, and has grew numerous disease resistant and high-yielding crop varieties, especially groundnuts. There is also a great deal of research in Liquid Metal Magnetohydrodynamics for power generation.
Address
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,
Trombay,
Mumbai – 400 085
INDIA
Phone : +91-22-25505050 / 25505010
Fax : +91-22-25505151 / 25519613