Mandate

From laboratory development to demonstration to production
Thrust areas include:
• Mineral Beneficiation, processing and flowsheet development
• Materials preparation synthesis and processing(Pyro, hydro and electro metallurgy)
• Production of Uranium (ingot and powder)
• Production and fabrication of Beryllium, its alloys and compounds
• Neutron absorber materials – boron, boron carbide and borides
• Development of nuclear structural materials – Reactor pressure vessel materials, Zirconium alloys, refractory metals and alloys, nanocarbon, carbon-carbon composites
• Degradation, failure analyses and life management of nuclear structural materials
• Corrosion, high temperature oxidation, tribology and compatibility studies for nuclear plants
• Microstructural and mechanical properties correlation
• Novel solvents for recovery or separation of nuclear materials from waste
• Glass, Glass ceramics, Advanced ceramics
• Advanced materials
• Surface engineering, Pack cementation and coatings
• Modelling and Simulation
• Beam processing of materials, Radiation damage studies
• Phase transformation andequilibrium phase diagrams
• Microstructural characterisation, 3D Atom probe, TEM, EPMA, SEM, EBSD