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Within a year
of attaining independence, the Dominion Legislature of India passed
the Atomic Energy Act in April 1948 to provide for the development and
control
of atomic energy. Under this Act, the Atomic Energy Commission was
created on 10th August 1948 with three objectives
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To take steps as may
be necessary from time to time to protect the interests of the
country in connection with atomic energy by exercise of the powers
conferred on the Government of India by the provisions of the Atomic
Energy
Act
To survey the territories of the Indian Dominion for location of
useful
minerals in connection with atomic energy
To promote research in their own laboratories and to subsidise such
research in existing
institutions
and universities
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The
task of survey for atomic minerals, as above, was entrusted to AMD. Under this provision, AMD has
exclusive
right to conduct exploration for uranium, and other prescribed substances
such as thorium, beryllium,
lithium,
zirconium,
niobium, tantalum, rare-earths and others like ilmenite
and
rutile.(Titanium
ores and concentrates, ilmenite, rutile and leucoxene, and zirconium,
it's alloys and compounds and minerals/concentrates
including zircon have been delisted from the list of Prescribed substances
after 1.1.2007). AMD certification of export consignments of
Garnet is also not necessary as per DAE vide ID Note No.7/3(5)/2003-PSU/398
dated 18.7.2007.
exclusive right to buy from private mine owners, prescribed minerals
produced incidental to mining of other economic minerals at prices
fixed by Government from
time to time.
to carry out R&D on (a) designing and fabrication
of radiometric instruments (b) development of new analytical
techniques for multi-elemental determination at trace
and ultratrace levels
and (c) petromineralogical characterization and mineral
beneficiation of
radioactive
ores.
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