To provide safe nuclear energy to fuel India’s ambitious nuclear energy growth, safety research, new materials development and strengthening of the safeguard regime is imperative. The Nuclear Engineering and Technology (NET-IITK) programmme within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT-Kanpur is extensively researching nuclear safety issues, heat transfer behavior for safe operation, accident detection systems, radioactive release mitigations systems etc..

Further, NET-IITK is also involved in the development of technology to support the development of new generation of nuclear reactors such as molten salt reactors like the prototype fast breeder reactor constructed in Kalpakkam....Read More