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IT is reported (J. Sci. Ind. Res., India, 5, 90 ; Aug. 1946) that the Atomic Research Committee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, has recommended an intensive geological and physico-chemical survey of the thorium-bearing minerals in Travancore, and set up a sub-committee to draw up proposals for a similar survey of uranium-bearing minerals in India. The Committee considers that atomic research should be given first priority and encouraged by the Government of India on a large scale. However, as it is likely that only small sums will be available for the purpose, it will be necessary to concentrate research at one centre in the country. The centre recommended is the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay, where a 300 MeV. betatron, with a team of ten workers to operate it, is to be established. Grants, to Prof. M. N. Saha for operational expenses of a cyclotron, and to Prof. D. M. Bose for research on the trans-uranic elements, were also recommended by the Committee.
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Atomic Research in India. Nature 159, 192 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159192b0
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