Nuclear Research Centers In India

S.N.	Nuclear Research center	Location	Year of Stb.	Objective
1	Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics	Kolkata	1949	To conduct and foster excellent and interesting interdisciplinary research of significant utility.
2	Physical Research Laboratory (PRL)	Ahmedabad	1947	To provide services such as networking, email, printing, backup and maintaining computational environment for scientific and engineering research.
3	Center of Earth Science's Studies	Trivendrum (Kerala)	1978	To Promote and establish modern scientific and technological research and development studies of importance to India and to Kerala in particular, in the field of Earth Sciences, etc.
4	Nuclear Fuel Complex	Hyderabad	1971	To identify strenuous jobs and awkward postures during work causing musculoskeletal problems in various plants and suggest remedial measures, To undertake the pulmonary function studies in some selectyed category workers. (Reference technical report submitted to management by CLI in 1981).
5	Bhabha Atomic Research Center	Trombay (Mumbai)	1957	To fulfill its mandate of indigenous nuclear power programme and various other applications of nuclear energy, etc.
6	Electronics Corporation of India	Hyderabad	1967	To continue services to the country's needs for the peaceful uses Atomic Energy. Special and Strategic requirements of Defence and Space, Electronics Security Systems and Support for Civil Aviation sector.
7	Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)	Mumbai	1948	To continue services to the country's needs for the peaceful uses Atomic Energy.
8	Uranium Corporation of India	Jadugoda	1967	Mining and Processing of uranium ore to produce uranium concentrate.
9	India Rare Earths Limited	Alwaye (Kerala)	1950	To become nationally and globally competitive player in beach sand minerals and to achieve annual production of ilmenite with associate minerals of 8 lakh tons by the year 2012, etc, o improve productivity, capacity utilization, and cost effectiveness, etc.
10	Indira Gandhi Centre For Atomic Research	Tamil Nadu	1971	To conduct broad based multidisciplinary programme of scientific research and advanced Engineering, directed towards the development of sodium cooled Fast Breeder Reactor [FBR] technology
11	National Chemical Laboratory (NCL)	Pune, Maharashtra	1950	To design new solid catalysts for chemical transformations with high conversion and selectivity for petrochemicals, selected high value fine chemicals and organic intermediates,develop catalysts for pollution abatement, etc.
12	High Altitude Research Laboratory	Gulmarg, Kashmir	1963	To provide the scientific community of the country a self contained high altitude / high latitude laboratory for scientific research.
13	Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute	Durgpur, West Bengal	1958	to provide assistance to mechanical engineering industries in the form of feasibility studies, research, training, consultancy etc. for import substitution & export
14	Central Mining Research Institution	Dhanbad, Bihar	1956	To carry out the work of research and development in the area of mining and allied subjects.
15	Radio Astronomy Center	Tamil Nadu	1968	To provide stimulating environment for the front-line research in radio astronomy and astrophysics
16	Variable Energy Cyclotron Center	Mumbai	1977	Development around the accelerator technology and research in the fields of accelerator physics, nuclear physics, quark-gluon plasma, theoretical physics, material sciences, chemistry, isotope production etc.
17	Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research	Hyderabad	1948	To carry out geological exploration and discover mineral deposits required for nuclear power programme of India.