Government
of India
Department of Atomic
Energy
Public Awareness Division
Ref.No. 13(1)/2009/PAD-PR
December 29,2009.
There has been an incidence of fire in a chemistry laboratory at BARC this afternoon.. The accident happened at 12.05 pm in one of the rooms on the third floor of the Modular Laboratory. The laboratory had few analytical instruments Like Spectrophotometers etc. The BARC fire Brigade arrived immediately and brought the fire under control in about 45 minutes. There have been two casualties in the accident. The bodies charred beyond recognition were discovered by the Firemen on entering the laboratory after extinguishing the fire. The police has started investigations. BARC has also started investigating the cause of the fire. It may be noted that no reactor, radioactivity or radiation is involved in the accident.