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Malur Ramasamy Srinivasan
Srinivasan speaking in 2011
Born(1930-01-05)5 January 1930
Bangalore, Mysore State, India (now Karnataka, India)
Died20 May 2025(2025-05-20) (aged 95)
Udagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, India
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndia
Alma materUniversity Visvesvaraya College of Engineering
McGill University
Known forNuclear program of India
Gas turbine
ChildrenSharada Srinivasan (daughter)
Raghuvir Srinivasan (son)
AwardsPadma Vibhushan (2015)
Padma Shri (1984)
Scientific career
FieldsMechanical engineering
InstitutionsAtomic Energy Commission of India
Department of Atomic Energy
International Atomic Energy Agency
Planning Commission

Malur Ramasamy Srinivasan (5 January 1930 – 20 May 2025)[1] was an Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He played a key role in the development of India's nuclear power programme and the development of the Pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR). He received the Padma Vibhushan award in 2015.[2]

Early life and education

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The third of eight siblings, Srinivasan was born in 1930 in Bangalore. He completed his schooling at the Intermediate College, Mysore in the science stream where he chose Sanskrit and English as his language for study. Despite physics being his first love, he joined the newly started engineering college (currently UVCE) by M. Visvesvaraya, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering[1] in 1950. He subsequently completed his master's in 1952 and was awarded a doctor of Philosophy degree in 1954 from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His field of specialization was gas turbine technology.[3]

Career

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Srinivasan joined the Department of Atomic Energy in September 1955. He worked with Homi Bhabha on the construction of India's first nuclear research reactor, Apsara,[1] which went critical in August 1956. In August 1959, Srinivasan was appointed Principal Project Engineer in the construction of India's first atomic power station. Following this, in 1967, Srinivasan was appointed Chief Project Engineer at the Madras Atomic Power Station.[citation needed]

In 1974, Srinivasan was appointed Director, Power Projects Engineering Division, DAE and then Chairman, Nuclear Power Board, DAE in 1984. In these capacities, he was responsible for planning, execution, and operation, of all nuclear power projects in the country. In 1987, he was appointed chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy,[4] with responsibility for all aspects of the Indian Nuclear Program. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India was created in September 1987, with Srinivasan as the Founder-Chairman. He was responsible for a total of 18 nuclear power units, of which seven are in operation, another seven under construction, and four still in the planning stages.

Other responsibilities

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Srinivasan was a senior adviser at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna from 1990 to 1992. He was a Member of the Planning Commission, Government of India from 1996 to 1998, looking after the portfolios of Energy, and Science & Technology. He was a Member of India's National Security Advisory Board from 2002 to 2004 and again from 2006 to 2008. He was also Chairman, Task Force on Higher Education, Karnataka from 2002 to 2004. Srinivasan was Founder Member of World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO); Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering and Institution of Engineers (India) and Emeritus Fellow of the Indian Nuclear Society.[5]

Srinivasan died on 20 May 2025, at the age of 95.[6]

Awards and honours

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Profile, asset.org.in; accessed 2 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Advani, Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar get Padma Vibhushan". Bharti Jain. The Times of India. 25 January 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Life Time Contribution Award In Engineering Fact sheet" (PDF). Association of Separation Scientists and Technologists. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  4. ^ Former Secretaries Of Department Of Atomic Energy
  5. ^ "Nuclear Experts, Nuclear Power Experts in India, Ask the Experts". Archived from the original on 7 March 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  6. ^ "M.R. Srinivasan, a key architect of India's nuclear programme, no more". The Hindu.
  7. ^ "PM Modi didn't respond to my pleas on language policy: CM Siddaramaiah - Bengaluru News". The Times of India. 2 November 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  8. ^ "The Asian Scientist 100". Asian Scientist. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
  9. ^ a b c "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
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