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Exhibition on nuclear energy a big draw

Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE: Students of schools and colleges, teachers, researchers, and other people thronged University College at Hampankatta on Wednesday to see an exhibition on "Peaceful uses of nuclear energy."

Mangalore University, Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology, under the Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai, and National Association for Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation in Industry organised the two-day exhibition on applications of radioisotopes and radiation in industry in Mumbai. It was part of a two-day seminar on "Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technology" organised by these institutions.

The exhibition features information on various aspects of nuclear energy. It has a terrestrial radiation map of India. It provides information on need for power, India's energy resource position, effect of thermal and hydroelectric plants on the ecosystem, uranium mining, items of food permitted for irradiation.

The information said that gamma radiation does not induce any radioactivity in the food and therefore there is no residual radioactivity in it.

M.I. Savadatti, former Vice-Chancellor, Mangalore University, inaugurated the exhibition.

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