Mangalore University established the Centre for Advanced Research in Environmental Radioactivity (CARER) as a national facility with the financial support of the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, and technical support from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). This is the most advanced laboratory for radioecological and radiation protection research in the University system in India. The centre focuses on developing radiation protection technologies and frontline research in radioecology and environmental radioactivity in collaboration with BRNS, BARC, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL). It is noteworthy that CARER has grown into an international research hub, collaborating with around 100 institutions in India and 30 institutions globally.
Some of the important facilities available in CARER are:
- Liquid scintillation spectrometry laboratory
- Carbon-14 and tritium measurements laborator
- Alpha Spectrometry laboratory (with multi-chamber and array detectors)
- Gamma spectrometry laboratory (with HPGe and NaI(Tl) detectors)
- Radon calibration laboratory (Asia's largest facility)
- Computation fluid dynamics laboratory
- Sample processing laboratory
- Walk in environmental chamber laboratory
For more details: https://mangaloreuniversity.ac.in/carer/