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On this day in 1966 at Mont Blanc Dr Homi Jahangir #Bhabha lost his life in a flight crash. Father of Indian #Nuclear Programme, Bhabha came to #India during WW2.
He joined IISc Bangalore after coming from Cambridge. Time when Vikram Sarabhai was also at IISc, who later became father of Space programme. CV Raman was director of institute. Later Bhabha established Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Time when Giants were walking the same corridor.
Bhabha conceived India’s three stage nuclear programme, ambitious one.
- Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor
- Fast Breeder Reactor
- Thorium Based Reactors
Three stage nuclear program in simple words.
India has less stock of uranium, we are importing. But we have huge thorium deposits.
So a strategy which started with uranium but in the end we will be able to use our own thorium deposits for power generation. Self sufficiency.
We haven’t achieved third yet.
In picture Bhabha with Albert Einstein (relativity), Yukawa, John Wheeler (black hole).
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