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Bhubaneswar, Feb 1: “India has very low per capita electricity availability despite being the fifth largest producer of electricity in the world,” said Swapnesh Malhotra of the department of atomic energy during the golden jubilee celebrations of the Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar (IOPB) here Sunday.
“To match the speed of other developing countries, India needs to increase its per capita electricity consumption. To achieve this in India we need to accelerate the growth of nuclear power to minimize the threat of energy security and environmental impacts,” said Malhotra, elaborating on the need, the public perceptions and the realities of nuclear power.
IOPB professor Parlapalli V Satyam spoke on the discovery of while LED. The blue light emitting diode was the missing piece in the puzzle for making white LED as LEDs of the other two primary colours were already available, Satyam said.
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Prof Palash Baran Pal spoke on the concept of elementary constituents, which he said has evolved with time.
“In ancient times, philosophers thought that fire, water, air and earth are the four basic constituents of everything. Since then we have come a long way. In the beginning of the 19th century, it was found that the atoms are not really invisible. There the real journey of the fundamental particles started,” said Pal.
