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'''Narayanan Srinivasan''' (1930–2014) was an Indian nuclear scientist and the founder project director of [[Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research]] (IGCAR).<ref name="Founder Director">{{Cite web |url=http://www.igcar.gov.in/press_releases/ns_igcar.htm |title=Founder Director |date=2018-11-26 |website=www.igcar.gov.in |access-date=2018-11-26}}</ref><ref name="Veteran nuclear scientist N.Srinivasan dead 1">{{Cite web |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/veteran-nuclear-scientist-n.srinivasan-dead-193467-2014-05-18 |title=Veteran nuclear scientist N.Srinivasan dead |date=May 18, 2014 |website=India Today |language=en |access-date=2018-11-26}}</ref> One of the pioneers of atomic energy program in India, he served as the design engineer for the plutonium plant at Trombay,<ref name="Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research">{{Cite web |url=http://www.igcar.gov.in/lis/nl73/igc73.pdf |title=Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research |date=2018-11-26 |website=IGCAR |access-date=2018-11-26}}</ref> as the project director of IGCAR (the then Reactor Research Centre) at [[Kalpakkam]], as the chief executive of Heavy Water Board and later the Nuclear Fuel Complex, and sat in the [[Atomic Energy Commission of India]] from 1982 to 1987.<ref name="Veteran nuclear scientist N.Srinivasan dead">{{Cite web |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/veteran-nuclear-scientist-n-srinivasan-dead-114051800716_1.html |title=Veteran nuclear scientist N.Srinivasan dead |last=IANS |date=2014-05-18 |website=Business Standard India |access-date=2018-11-26}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the [[Padma Bhushan]], the third highest civilian award, in 2003.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in/ |title=Padma Awards |date=2018-05-17 |website=Padma Awards |publisher=Government of India |access-date=2018-05-17}}</ref> He was also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the [[Department of Atomic Energy]] which he received in 2009.<ref name="Lifetime Achievement award  to ex IGCAR director">{{Cite web |url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/lifetime-achievement-award-to-ex-igcar-director-374658.html |title=Lifetime Achievement award  to ex IGCAR director |date=June 10, 2011 |website=News18 |access-date=2018-11-26}}</ref> Srinivasan died on May 18, 2014, at Chennai, at the age of 84.<ref name="Veteran nuclear scientist N.Srinivasan dead" />

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