DISCUSSING TECHNOLOGY: Mangalore University Vice-Chancellor K.M. Kaveriappa (left) with A.K. Kohli, chief executive, Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology, at a seminar in Mangalore on Wednesday. — Photo: R. Eswarraj

MANGALORE: Radiation processing technology in the country is spreading with companies evincing interest in adopting the technology in industries such as food processing and sterilisation of medical products, A.K. Kohli, Chief Executive, Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology (BRIT) under the Department of Atomic Energy, has said.

He was speaking after inaugurating a two-day seminar on "Applications of radioisotopes and radiation technology" organised by Mangalore University, the National Association for Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation in Industry and BRIT here on Wednesday.

Mr. Kohli said the BRIT had made significant progress in spreading radiation-processing technology both for food products and sterilisation of medical products. Five plants in the private sector had been built in the country with assistance from the BRIT.

Once such plant commissioned in Bangalore recently would be inaugurated on December 4.

He said that Innova Agri Bio Park Limited, Bangalore, had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the BRIT for setting up a plant for food products at Malur in Kolar district.

He said there was lot of potential for expansion of radioisotopes applications in the country.

K.M. Kaveriappa, Vice-Chancellor, Mangalore University, underlined the importance of nuclear energy. People think that radiation is harmful probably because of consequences of atomic explosion in world wars. Living organisms are well connected with radiation, he said.

M.I. Savadatti, former Vice-Chancellor, Mangalore University, who inaugurated an exhibition on "Peaceful uses of nuclear energy," said practitioners of nuclear energy were mainly responsible for spreading a myth that application of nuclear energy was harmful. Nuclear technology is an accepted technology now, he said.

G. Nageswara Rao, Station Director, Kaiga Nuclear Power Generating Station, released a souvenir.

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