CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -India’s biggest cyclotron facility named Cyclone-30 became operational at Kolkata-based Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), which comes under Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). Cyclotron is used to produce radioisotopes for diagnostic and therapeutic use for cancer care.

Detailed explanation-2: -Medical Cyclotron Facility Cyclone-30 Became Operational at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata. With increasing number of Indians diagnosed with cancer every year, the cyclotron machine will produce radioisotopes for nuclear imaging specifically for cancer detection.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) is a research and development unit of the Department of Atomic Energy. The VECC is located in Kolkata, India and performs research in basic and applied nuclear sciences and development of the latest nuclear particle accelerators.

Detailed explanation-4: -Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri (6 September 1917 – 25 June 2006) was an Indian physicist and academic, and a scientific advisor to the Government of India. He is known as one of the pioneers of nuclear physics in India and for building the nation’s first cyclotron at the University of Calcutta.

Detailed explanation-5: -Thallium-201 radioisotope has been successfully produced on 25/01/2021, for the first time in India at VECC Medical Cyclotron Facility by BRIT from Thallium-203 target irradiated with 28 MeV, 50uA proton beam.