Mumbai, Nov 19: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre would commission for the first time two types of indigenous industrial Electron Beam acclerators at its new Navi Mumbai complex next year to meet the ever increasing demand of the industries for processing various products. The new complex at Khargar, about 50 km from here, will be unique, self-sustained and self-contained with all the facilities that are required for the industrial use of EB accelerators and it is the first and only such facility of BARC, Dr R C Sethi, senior scientist in the accelerator and pulse power division of BARC, who is also the project in-charge, said at the three-day workshop of Indo-Bulgarian Scientific Cooperation Programme which began here today.

BARC would operate the accelerator with electron source having energy 10 Mev and a power of 10 Kw radiofrequency (RF) Linac and a DC machine of 3 Mev/30 Kw mostly by the middle of 2004 and already the electron gun lab, RF structure lab, control and instrumentation lab, high vacuum lab and high voltage lab have started functioning, Sethi said.

Provision for future R and D for industrial and processing materials are being provided, he said. Bureau Report