Books By Ravindra (IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India.) Kale, B.K. (IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India) Shreedhar - Author

Mr. R.D Kale graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, in 1966. He completed a one-year orientation course in Nuclear Science and Engineering as part of the 10th batch of the Training school at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and started his career in BARC. He was deputed to CEN deCadarache, France, where he worked along with French specialists as part of the Indian design team for the design Fast Breeder Test Reactor under a collaborative project with the French atomic energy establishment from May 1969 to June 1970. He moved to the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, in 1971 and worked for a few years initially on the detailed design of some reactor components and preparation of their technical specifications. He spent the next 28 years establishing water and sodium test facilities to test fast reactor components. These included a large sodium test facility in a 43 m high building for testing full-scale reactor components in sodium