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Shri
Satinder Singh Bajaj took over as Chairman of the Atomic Energy
Regulatory Board on January 14, 2010.
Shri Bajaj, a Mechanical Engineer, began his career with the Department
of Atomic Energy in 1969 after obtaining training in Nuclear Engineering
from 12th Batch of BARC Training School. He has been working in
the area of nuclear reactor safety, and retired as `Distinguished
Scientist' and Senior Executive Director (Safety) from Nuclear
Power Corporation of India Ltd. in July 2007.
His specific areas of work have included reactor safety analysis,
system thermal hydraulics, plant transient studies, probabilistic
safety assessment, system safety studies and reviews, containment
engineering, reactor physics and fuel.
He played a pioneering role in successfully establishing a sound
infrastructure in NPCIL for safety analysis of Indian Pressurized
Heavy Water Reactors(PHWRs), both deterministic and probabilistic.
He has been closely involved in the development and validation
of several computer codes for safety analysis. He performed several
pioneering and definitive safety studies for PHWRs covering plant-wide
response to postulated/actual events, to identify preventive/mitigative
actions.
Prior to joining AERB, he was serving under the 'Raja Ramanna
Fellowship' scheme of DAE, and has been advising various Units
of DAE on nuclear safety issues.
He has been associated with AERB as Chairman and Member of a number
of committees. He has actively contributed to preparation of several
regulatory safety codes and guides.
Shri Bajaj is recipient of Indian Nuclear Society (INS) Award
for outstanding achievement in Nuclear Technology including Nuclear
Safety, and is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering
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