MILITARY - NUCLEAR PHYSICS SCIENTIFIC - BIOGRAPHIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210219-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 219
• Publication Date: March 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2002/08/06 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210219-1
CLASSIFICATION S-E -C -R-E-T
SECUR1TY ?INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
Military - Nuclear physics
Scientific - Biographic
Daily newspapers
India
24 - 27 Dec 1952
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LComment: The following presents information on the Indian Rare
Earth;. Factory, the first atom_c energy pro:eserng or :=epz3-al.ion plant
to be c?stabliehed in India. The plant was dedicated by Prune Minister
Nehru on 26 December 1952. The information is taken from Hindi and
Bengali dally newenaner- for the rs~riod 24 - 27 DFCernh,r 19`2.
Ilumbers in .arenrh-'.es refer to ar ended >c rr .s /
Name, i.ncatlon, :lets. Cnnitnl
The Indian Rare Fnr'.Y.: Fac*.orX (l) i. s.ocnt.ed on .he 1-,an.k_ of l.i'e Periyar
River (2), in Ellur, near Alwaye /1U 37 i! 76 21 I?/ in Travvncor?: -~7ochin State,
ladia.(3) The fartory and grcunr? .over anprr,xi:nat.ely 22.5 e rr~ of Land,(L)
The plant was organ:;:?d in September 1960 as the Indian Base Earths Limited
on the recommcndntticr_ of the it,i~an National PIarloine C'-ricissIon. Its lidtial
investment, was 5 cull:cn ru-ee It, was later incrce>o,i to N rniUil.n :uj es
with 55 percent of the _harr?ss held by the central government and 15 percent by
the Travancore-Cor_nin Late p;