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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 (INAE).
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