Ravi B Grover is an Indian nuclear scientist and a mechanical engineer.
21 Facts About Ravi Grover
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Ravi Grover is the founding vice-chancellor of the Homi Bhabha National Institute, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, chairman of the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and World Academy of Art and Science.
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Ravi Grover has been awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India in the year 2014.
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Ravi Grover retired from his previous position as Principal Adviser, Strategic Planning Group, Department of Atomic Energy, in February 2013.
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Ravi Grover represented BARC training school in the World Nuclear University in 2003.
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Ravi B Grover completed his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the prestigious Delhi College of Engineering in 1970 and joined the staff of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
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Ravi Grover completed a PhD in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1982.
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Ravi Grover was awarded Dhirubhai Ambani Oration Award by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2008, Distinguished Alumnus Award by Delhi College of Engineering Alumni Association in 2009, Distinguished Alumnus Award by Indian Institute of Science and Indian Institute of Science Alumni Association in 2011.
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Ravi Grover worked on fluid to fluid modeling techniques for two-phase flows, reactor fuel and core thermal hydraulics, safety analysis, and process design of reactor systems and equipment.
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Ravi Grover is well known in India as a proponent of nuclear energy as can be seen from his publications related to nuclear energy.
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Ravi Grover is an editor of the International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management.
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Ravi Grover has been writing in media about issues related to India's electricity needs and has been highlighting the importance of nuclear energy.
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Ravi Grover firmly believes that only a diverse energy mix comprising all low-carbon technologies, that is hydro, nuclear, solar, and wind, should be exploited and provided with a level playing field.
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Ravi Grover has worked on details of India's regime on civil liability for nuclear damage and is credited with explaining fine detail regarding Supplier's liability.
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Ravi Grover is one half of the Kakodkar-Grover duo who are chiefly responsible for the success of the Indo-US negotiations that culminated in the 123 agreement signed in July 2007.
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Anil Kakodkar and Ravi Grover were the technical advisors to India's politicians in the tense negotiations that led to the Indo-US nuclear agreement, a culmination of two years of painstaking negotiations.
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Ravi Grover has written in detail about the initiative to open civil nuclear cooperation.
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Homi Bhabha National Institute was accredited as a deemed to be university in 2005 and Ravi Grover was its first director.
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Ravi Grover played a lead role in setting up the institute.
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Ravi Grover was head of HBNI from 2005 until February 2016 and has brought it to the stage of one of the leading research universities in India.
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Ravi Grover has written a brief history of the institute in an article published by him on the website of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.