The Mandate in the Instruction of Regulation

• Carry out basic and applied materials studies
• Develop methods of destructive and non-destructive testing of materials
• Design and fabricate nuclear electronics equipment, spare parts and control devices
• Carry out materials tests for quality control assessment on steels, alloys, ceramics, and other non-metallic materials
• Study the effect of radiation (both ionizing and non-ionizing) on properties of devices and components
• Applications of accelerator in material development and characterization
• Develop capability for the local manufacture of solar energy devices
• Develop foundry and casting techniques for re-production of intricate spare parts
• Develop new materials useful and usable as power generator and radiation detectors
• Develop a data base on the optical, electrical, magnetic and mechanical properties of new materials
• Research on structural, core and fuel materials for the reactor development programme
• Study special alloys for turbine blades and foils for power plants
• Modeling of physical behaviour of materials
• Corrosion assessment and control
• Failure analysis of pipelines.
• Any other assignment (teaching, training and consultancy)