India carrying out uranium exploration in Arunachal Pradesh

Uranium exploration has been taken up in Arunachal Pradesh by the Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, a senior official has said.

AMD is a constituent unit of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). “AMD is carrying out detailed geological investigations for uranium in parts of Arunachal Pradesh,” AMD director D K Sinha told PTI in an email response.

Uranium is used as fuel in nuclear reactors. Sinha was responding to reports about AMD taking up uranium exploration in the north-eastern state, near the India-China border. The AMD has a mandate to identify and evaluate mineral resources of uranium, thorium, zirconium, titanium and others and rare earths containing uranium and thorium in the potential geological domains of the country, Sinha said.