Address: Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC)
Trombay, Mumbai 400 085
Telephone: 91-22-2555151, 91-22-5505010
Fax: 91-22-25505151, 91-22-5519613
Email: webmaster@magnum.barc.ernet.in 
Director: Shri B. Bhattacharjee
Subordinate to: Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
Size: Small scale, experimental facility
Primary Function: Convert uranium oxide (yellow cake) into uranium hexafluoride (UF6)

Description and Activities:
The Uranium Conversion Plant is part of the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in Trombay. It was established in 1984 as a small scale facility to convert uranium oxide (yellow cake) to uranium hexafluoride (UF6). UF6 from the Uranium Conversion Plant is most likely sent to BARC's Uranium Enrichment Plant that is also located in Trombay.

The facility is not under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards. It has a yearly capacity of 100 metric tons of uranium metal (MTU).

Key Sources: Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), <http://www.barc.ernet.in/>; "Depleted Uranium Processing and Storage Facilities," Antenna Foundation, 27 June 2002, <http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/dfac.html>; "India: Nuclear Infrastructure," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, <http://www.ceip.org/programs/npp/india2.htm>; "India-Plutonium Investigation n°10," Plutonium Investigation,
<http://www.wise-paris.org/english/ournewsletter/10/page3.html>; "The Paradoxes of Pokhran Strategy," Defence Journal Online Edition, November 2000, <http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/nov/paradoxes.htm>.

	Updated September 2003