barc industrial visit

well , yesterday 24 th our college had planned an industrial visit ..well actually by CSI(taking no credit away from them)....the visit was the 1st one i guess ...During the 1st year we(me, ip,gsb, dev, neavin and niraj) had visited DAKC. that was also a great experience. This time it was going to be BARC, trombay. well, considering it is a sensitive government installation we were not allowed to take any cell phones there,,,,i was eagerly waiting to be at trombay ,....it all began at 8 am ...we left by bus from mpstme....and guess who was accompanying us ..." bhushan sir" ....

so we were all prepared k aaj to iski marni hain.... and we recall his shayri in class once

" kehdo un padne walo se, k jitna course padke woh top karte hain . utna to hum chod diya karte the "

so we all persuade him to receite a shayri ......

he refuses. he is sitting on the 1st seat...and sab uski le rahe hain .....the bus has barely reached andheri flyover....

and juniors start singing and challenge us to play antakshri ...( cant recall wen was the last time i had participated in antakshri....)

dont have the capacity to recall songs.....and all the songs i recalled were the ones i used to sing when i would play antakshri as a kid...songs of 90's .....''

what we did to the juniors was that we would end the song abruptly...like " jag sara jag sara nikhar gaya hud pyaar ka vaashe vich bikhar gaya th ....so we would put a th in the end....."

and since there are very few songs starting with "th" they wont be able to sing ...( we had to do pass time as barc was 90 minutes drive from coll)

also if we would not know a song beginning with a particular letter like "ka"

then we would start singing " kasakali kasakali ".........mazze aa gaye the...

also i recall some pathetic songs

" sarkai lo khatiya jada lage "

" kya ada kya jalwe tere paro "

" jhanjariya uski chanak gai"

"ankhiyon se goli mare"

" kisi disco main jaaye"

" bholi bhali ladki...."

my mind recalls pathetic songs more as i can relate to the pathetic lyrics being a pathetic singer,,,,

coming back to bhushan ...we asked him to sing...as we coulnt recall any song starting

so bhushan starts" mein shayar to nahi ......./........................shyari aa gayi"

and anjaney goes crazy ...he shouts " abey chup baith shayar ki aulad...sala gaana gaye ga "

also to mention how we all r thinking for a song from " chhh"

and shikhar or aseem i dont know who...suddenly starts

" chaat pe soya tha behnoi ( if u recall from karan arjun)"

that left many dumbfounded...( including me)

so finally we reached barc.....must say what a place it is ....

we reached barc. there we waited for sumtime for clearance and all security checks....while we were sitting in one of the buses we were told that..u mustnt have a sim card also in ur pocket ...if u have it give it right away.....if u go inside and the machine detects it ...u r screwed....under the govt laws..no one will be able to help u later...

and i being the disaster king....how can there be any disaster where i am not involved....

so finally when we are just going inside ....the man comes to check evry1s wallet...and i find my old hutch ka sim card inside......chupa k rakha tha kisi wallet k kone mein,.,,,, good i found out before going inside ...else i wont be writing this post !!( i was thinking to throw it out of the window,....but thanks to the prudence of ip who told me to be honest and tell the security guard...)

so we enter the place....

and we are first taken to an audi where we are introduced to barc ....

then we move on to see a supercomputer ...man what an experience ....seeing a super computer in front of u ....having a huge screen where all the images are being processes.... and u can zoom down to look at the car number from the satellite...( heard a lot abt it, but seeing it is believing it)

well this is where india and china stand apart i guess....in china socialist mentality would have never allowed someone other then scientists and defence personnel to view a supercomputer and let students enter a place of such strategic importance to the country ......

well the fastest supercomputer in india is currently at crl( computational research laboratory, pune) of the tata's......and in the world is roadrunner( los alamos lab,usa)

after witnessing the super computer we are taken to the nuclear reactor ...

we actually went inside the reactor ...there was a hydraulic door at the entrance ,,,,,

also a control room could be seen.....the reactor was
Cirus the plutonium obtained from this reactor helped india conduct its first nuclear test .....

also the other reactor apsara and dhruva are research reactors ......

i saw things which i had learned back in class 10

coolants, fuel rods( cadmium), reactor core.....

after coming out we were wandering about ...

barc has sea on one side and mountains on other...

we see a tank on the top of the hill . we find out that water would come down from there to cool the reactor....

i had crazy thoughts "there could be something below that landscaped garden,,,,,( ha ha )...say a secret lab...nuclear bunkers ....."

then we have our lunch ...must say was decent.

our final stop was a laboratory wher instruments were kept and testing was done so that nuclear waste isnt passed outside....

we were taken into a room .....a device like thermometer which measures radioactivity was placed into bhushan sirs pocket and we went inside the room.... must say that was scary....going into a place where nuclear waste is treated .....we came outside and the reading was same ...so no radioactive loss had taken place.....

and that was the end of a trip .....

visiting barc made me proud of our technological prowess....we have indigeneous nuclear reactors .,....unlike our neighbour;

also our nuclear reactors are in the safe hands of GOI.