22/12/2025
🔆 Department of Atomic Energy (DAE): Year-End Review 2025
📍 Nuclear Power Milestone
✅ 56,681 MU electricity generated in FY 2024–25 (highest ever)
✅ ~49 million tonnes CO₂ emissions avoided
📍 Capacity Expansion
✅ RAPP-7 (700 MWe) achieved commercial operation (Apr 2025)
✅ Mahi Banswara Project (Rajasthan): 4×700 MWe PHWRs
✅ Implemented by ASHVINI (NPCIL–NTPC JV)
✅ Approval for 10 additional PHWR units beyond 22.5 GW target (2032)
📍 Health & Cancer Care
✅ 150-bed Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital, Muzaffarpur inaugurated
✅ Tata Memorial Hospital recognised as IAEA “Rays of Hope” Anchor Centre
✅ 1.53 crore medical devices sterilised via e-beam technology (exports to 35+ countries)
📍 Rare Earths & Advanced Materials
✅ India’s first Certified Reference Material (CRM) for Rare Earth Elements
✅ 99.8% pure Boron-11 achieved (nuclear & semiconductor grade)
✅ High-purity Niobium developed for accelerators & space use
📍 Defence & Strategic Technologies
✅ CBRN protection systems deployed at strategic locations
✅ Key contributions to Agni, Akash-Prime, Astra & BrahMos systems
📍 Frontier Research & Innovation
✅ Indian Dark Matter Experiment (InDEx) launched at Jaduguda
✅ Indigenous fetal growth prediction model developed
✅ India hosted 18th International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025)
📍 Agriculture & Societal Applications
✅ Radiation-developed crops released: Banana (TBM-9), Sorghum (RTS-43)
✅ 40 gamma irradiation facilities operational nationwide
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