R e p o r t o f L e c t u r e - To u r i n I n d i a

November 28, 2006

R e p o r t o f L e c t u r e - To u r i n I n d i a A k i t o Ta k a h a s h i *1 *2

*1, *2

P r o f e s s o r E m e r i t u s , O s a k a U n i v e r s i t y, O s a k a , J a p a n H i g h S c i e n t i f i c R e s e a r c h L a b o r a t o r y, T s u , M i e , J a p a n

Abstract: Report of lecture-tour in India in 4-26 November 2006 is given. Lectures on DDX nuclear data and CMNS/CF were made at NIAS, Mangalore U n i v e r s i t y, I G C A R a n d B A R C . O n e - d a y t r i p t o P u n e U n i v e r s i t y i s a d d e d . Features of the lecture tour including sight seeing are reported.

1. Invitation from India O n a d a y o f J u n e 2 0 0 6 , m y o l d I n d i a n f r i e n d D r. S . G a n e s a n s e n t m e a n e - m a i l i n f o r m i n g o n t h e N W N D 2 0 0 6 N u c l e a r D a t a Wo r k s h o p c e l e b r a t i n g t h e Golden Jubilee of BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) to be held on 8-15 N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 6 a t M a n g a l o r e U n i v e r s i t y, I n d i a . W i t h t h e f o l l o w i n g e - m a i l i n t h e s a m e d a y, h e w r o t e i n v i t a t i o n f o r m y t a l k o n f u s i o n n u c l e a r d a t a measurements

using

Osaka

14

MeV

Neutron

Source.

He

waived

the

registration fee of 500USD. D r. S . G a n e s a n a n d m y f a m i l y h a d l i v e d i n t h e s a m e a p a r t m e n t b u i l d i n g i n a village of Leopoldshafen near Kernforschungszentrum (KfK; Karlsruhe N u c l e a r R e s e a r c h C e n t e r ) i n We s t G e r m a n y a t t h a t t i m e o f 1 9 7 8 - 1 9 7 9 . H i s f a m i l y a n d m y f a m i l y g o t a c q u a i n t e d a n d e n j o y e d d i n n e r s o m e t i m e s t o g e t h e r. After leaving KfK (the present name is simply Karlsruhe Research Centre), he worked for 5 years at Nuclear Data Section of IAEA Headquarter in Vi e n n a . We t w o h a v e b e e n w o r k i n g i n t h e f i e l d o f f u s i o n a n d f i s s i o n - r e l a t e d nuclear

data.

We

have

had

chances

to

meet

at

some

international

conferences, IAEA-CRP workshops and local symposiums in 1980-2002.

He has asked me to come to India several times, but I have been hesitating to go since I have been taught from Japanese friends that India was an awful place. This time I was also hesitating to accept the invitation, but asked my wife if she might like to see India. My wife immediately responded yes to go. She was pre-activated since she was visiting an Indian wife living in the neighborhood once a week or so for English conversation. She got also pre-knowledge on India from Mrs. Kobayashi, the wife of Keisuke Kobayashi, P r o f e s s o r E m e r i t u s K y o t o U n i v e r s i t y, w h o v i s i t e d I n d i a i n t h e l a s t J a n u a r y. They said, India was ‘fantastic country’. So, I decided to go and sent a response of yes to Ganesan. And I thought that it might be good chance to have some lecture tour on the recent status on Cold Fusion (now named as Condensed Matter Nuclear Science; CMNS) in some leading laboratories in India. Immediately I sent a n e - m a i l t o m y C F f r i e n d D r. M a h a d e v a S r i n i v a s a n ( C h i n o , n i c k - n a m e d ) . Chino was an initiator of CF researches in BARC in 1989-1990s having about 50 researchers. But the Indian CF activity was completely killed after his retirement from BARC. Chino, as well as Ganesan, was so kind of arranging my lecture tour to NIAS (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore),

Mangalore

U n i v e r s i t y,

IGCAR

near

Chennai

and

BARC

in

Mumbai. From June to November 2006, we three exchanged very frequently e-mails for preparation. G a n e s a n i s w o r k i n g o u t o f C F. H e i s e x p e r t o f N u c l e a r D a t a a n d F i s s i o n Reactor Physics, but, he says, is keeping open mind to CF and has kindly arranged my talks in IGCAR and BARC. In July 2006, my wife and I run to bookstores to buy tourist-books on India, and started to reserve air-tickets and hotels, with great helps by Chino and Ganesan. Of course, we planned to visit some historical places as UNESCO world heritages in India, which locate near to visiting cities. This was our f i r s t v i s i t t o I n d i a , t h e f a n t a s t i c a n d a w f u l c o u n t r y.

2. Bangalore We c h o s e T h a i A i r w a y s w h i c h f l e w d i r e c t l y t o B a n g a l o r e , a f t e r t r a n s i t i n Bangkok, by the advice of neighbor-living Indian friends. The Bangkok new International Airport (Swannapoom) looked as a surprisingly huge and modern complex designed to be very well-functioned by a German civil e n g i n e e r, w h i c h w a s i n v e r y c o n t r a s t w i t h o l d s t y l e a i r p o r t s w h i c h w e w o u l d soon see in Indian big cities. We a r r i v e d i n B a n g a l o r e A i r p o r t i n t h e m i d n i g h t o f 4

th

N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 6 . To

g e t o u t t h e e x i t o f A i r p o r t , t h e r e w a s i m m e d i a t e o p e n i n g o f t h e c h a o s . We h a r d l y f o u n d t h e p l a c a r d w r i t i n g A k i t o Ta k a h a s h i , m y n a m e , a n d N I A S h a n d e d b y a M u s l i m d r i v e r o f N I A S . To g e t i n t h e c a r, s e v e r a l p e o p l e k i n d l y put our baggage into the rear trunk and we thanked them to start, but s e v e r a l h a n d s r e q u i r e d t i p s . We d i d n o t h a v e s m a l l b i l l s a n d I h a n d e d one-hundred Rs bill to one, and we could start. Later I did know that income per day for a field worker of farmer was about 40-50 Rs (about 1 USD). We s t a y e d t h r e e n i g h t s i n t h e G u e s t H o u s e o f I I S c ( I n d i a n I n s t i t u t e o f Science). Inside the fully forested huge and beautiful campus of IISc, NIAS l o c a t e s . I I S c a n d N I A S w e r e f o u n d e d b y t h e f a m o u s T A T A f a m i l y, t h e o w n e r of the biggest enterprise in India. IISc is the top-ranked (and 28

th

ranked

in the world, they say) National University in India. NIAS has a very b e a u t i f u l m o d e r n a m e n i t y o f r e s e a r c h a n d s t a y. I t s e e m s t h a t N I A S w a s founded to imitate the famous Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. T h e G u e s t H o u s e w a s s i m i l a r t o t h a t w e e x p e r i e n c e d i n Ts i n g h u a U n i v e r s i t y China in 1980s. A wide two-bed room with primitive bath room welcomed us to fall in sleep with tiredness of long-day trip from Japan. In the next morning of 5

th

N o v e m b e r, D r . M . S r i n i v a s a n a r r i v e d a t t h e

Guest House. He took a night train from Bombay (Mumbai). He immediately started very kind hospitality to us. He handed us a mobile of his wife for our

temporary use in India. This was indeed helpful for information exchange with our hosts during our whole tour in India.

My lecture on CMNS/CF was scheduled in the evening of 6

th

N o v e m b e r,

p u t t i n g i n t o t h e s e r i e s l e c t u r e s p r o g r a m o f N I A S Tr a i n i n g P r o g r a m m e s f o r national leading people in various fields of researches, October 29 to N o v e m b e r 11 . S o t h a t a u d i e n c e s o f m y l e c t u r e o n P r o g r e s s i n C o n d e n s e d Matter Nuclear Science (modified version of my keynote talk at ICCF12) were widely spread as Geomagnetism, Robotics, Agriculture, Radiation & I s o t o p e Te c h n o l o g y, A e r o s p a c e S c i e n c e , T r a n s p o r t a t i o n , S t a t e C o u n c i l o f S c i e n c e a n d Te c h n o l o g y, M i n i s t r y o f S c i e n c e a n d Te c h n o l o g y, M i n i s t r y o f Consumer Affairs, Raman Research Institute, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, National Institute of Science and others. I tried to choose easy explanations for non-nuclear experts. The chairman of m y s e s s i o n , N I A S P r o f e s s o r, a d m i r e d m y t a l k a l t h o u g h D r. S r i n i v a s a n c o u l d add clear words for explaining the status of CMNS researches. There were h o w e v e r,

non-formal

audiences

from

NIAS

and

IISc,

including

D r.

Muelenberg, visiting researcher from Boston USA, nuclear physicists and mathematician who asked me essentially technical questions. NIAS people

a n d D r. S r i n i v a s a n s a i d t h a t m y t a l k w a s w e l l r e c e i v e d t o r e c o g n i z e C M N S as emerging important field. NIAS gave me 5,000Rs honorarium which was

m o r e t h a n a m o n t h l y i n c o m e o f a n I n s t i t u t e d r i v e r. W e w e r e i n v i t e d t o t h e luxury Indian dinner at NIAS, a full curry course. On the 5

th

e v e n i n g , I a n d C h i n o m e t P r o f . K . P. S i n h a a n d D r. M u e l e n b e r g

a t G u e s t H o u s e . We d i s c u s s e d a b o u t t h e o r y o f C M N S . S i n h a a n d M u e l e n b e r g are developing a bosonized electron-state model, which is similar to my EQPET model but more elegant. Prof. Sinha did not attend my lecture at NIAS. Later when I was in Mumbai in 16

th

to 25

th

, D r. M . M e l i c h ( N a v a l

Graduate School, USA) visited Chino in Chennai to discuss how India could restart CMNS/CF studies, since IISc and NIAS might have possibility for i n i t i a t i n g a c t i v i t y. Bangalore has several millions of population (nobody knows exact number) now and is rapidly expanding as a leading IT industry town. The IT industry r e g i o n l o c a t e s i n s u b u r b s , i n t w o h o u r s d i s t a n c e b y c a r. I c o u l d n o t s e e i t due to traffic difficulty to access there. Before coming to India, I imagined a modernized down town as US towns but the reality was quite different. Bangalore

is

called

a

garden

c i t y.

Actually

we

saw

full

of

big

and

n i c e l y - b r a n c h e d s t r e e t t r e e s a n d p a r k s ; a r e a l l y g r e e n c i t y. H o w e v e r, 2 - 3 s t o r i e s - b u i l d i n g s a n d h o u s e s a l o n g s t r e e t s w e r e m o s t l y h u m b l e a n d d i r t y, and even more chaotic with heavily crowded wandering people, so many a u t o - t r i c y c l e s a n d c a r s s p a t t e r i n g u n c o n t r o l l e d e x h a u s t g a s e s . We w e n t f o r sight seeing with the Institute car on 5

th

N o v e m b e r. W e h a d t o s p e n d m o s t

hours in heavy traffic jams in streets and could visit only two places in a d a y. L a t e r w e s a w t h e s a m e s i t u a t i o n s o f h e a v i l y j a m m i n g t r a f f i c s i n Chennai and Mumbai. This city needs urgent construction of mass-transport systems

like

subways

(metros)

and

mono-rail

sky-trains.

I

felt

that

foreigners had difficulty to walk along streets because of no good walking spaces, due to fullness of wandering people and too busily coming cars and tricycles. Urgent construction of city infrastructures is really needed for reducing dusts and garbage disposed everywhere along streets, as well as they need to construct city-water in- and out-lines. Air-pollution and bad sanitary condition are of big problem. Indian government needs great investment to improve these serious situations. The situation in Mumbai is m u c h m o r e s e r i o u s , a s I w r i t e l a t e r.

3. Mangalore On 7

th

November we arrived at a small airport of Mangalore on flat top of

m o u n t a i n a r e a . A t e a m o f M a n g a l o r e U n i v e r s i t y, l e d b y P r o f . G . N a y a k o f M i c r o t r o n C e n t e r, k i n d l y r e c e i v e d u s a n d b r o u g h t t o T a j M a n j u r a n H o t e l i n t h e c o r n e r o f d o w n t o w n a r e a . Ta j M a n j u r a n w a s a n i c e 5 - s t a r h o t e l . We c o m f o r t a b l y s t a y e d t h e r e f o r 5 n i g h t s . We w e r e d a y - b y - d a y g e t t i n g u s e d t o the atmosphere of Indian chaotic towns and totally curry taste of all foods. Tr a f f i c h e r e w a s n o t s o h e a v y a s i n B a n g a l o r e . We c o u l d s e e a n i c e v i e w o f A r a b i a n S e a f r o m t h e h o t e l w i n d o w. The NWND-2006 workshop as the All-Indian nuclear data conference and also celebrating the golden jubilee of BARC was started on 8

th

November at

the auditorium of Mangalore University for ceremony session and then we

moved to Faculty of Science Building to have technical sessions. Mangalore U n i v e r s i t y, l o c a t i n g i n a b o u t 2 0 k m d i s t a n c e f r o m t h e c i t y c e n t e r, s i t e s o n the hill top and has a huge campus, but the wildest campus in nature which I have ever seen. My invited talk on ‘Experience of DDX Measurements at Osaka 14 MeV Neutron Source’ was the first presentation of the first session. I presented about the project of constructing an intense 14 MeV neutron source of Osaka U n i v e r s i t y, n a m e d O K T AV I A N , a n d u t i l i z i n g i t f o r m e a s u r i n g n u c l e a r d a t a needed for DT fusion reactor application. Due to the 30 min limited time, I focused

on

experiments

DDX for

(double neutron

differential and

charged

particle

emission

cross-sections)

particle

emission

based

on

TOF

(Time-Of-Flight) and pulse shape separation techniques. Nuclear physics analyses applying the combination of direct-inelastic process (DWBA and coupled

channel

theories),

pre-compound

process

(exciton

models)

and

Feshbach-type compound process for heavier nuclei than Al-27. For lighter nuclei from Li-6 to F-19, I said, we had to enjoy specific faces of particle spectra

changing

from

isotope

to

isotope,

which

required

individual

analyses of complex direct break-up processes of multi-particle emission. I also talked on the integral blanket neutronics experiments with spherical tritium breeding blanket system of Be-Li-C in three layers; This experiment, implemented as the inter-University work in Japan in 1986-1996, showed first time in the world that DT reactor could breed tritium, namely TBR ( Tr i t i u m B r e e d i n g R a t i o ) > 1 . 0 . M y t a l k w a s r e c e i v e d w i t h g r e a t a d m i r a t i o n by participants. Now Indian laboratories, BARC and Pune University for instance, wish to construct similar accelerators and conduct extended works for fusion and basic science applications. D r. A . L . N i c h o l a s , h e a d o f N u c l e a r D a t a S e c t i o n I A E A , a d d r e s s e d t h e world nuclear data needs, role of IAEA and other national ND centers (USA, E U , J a p a n , R u s s i a , C h i n a , a n d o t h e r s ) . D r. G . A u d i , F r a n c e , p r e s e n t e d o n t h e i r N D e v a l u a t i o n w o r k s f o r n u c l e a r m a s s e s . D r. G . K i m f r o m K o r e a

p r e s e n t e d w o r k s o n P h o h a n g L i n a c N e u t r o n F a c i l i t y. D r. K . L . P e d d i c o r d , Te x a s

A

&

M

U.,

presented

about

nuclear

engineering

education

and

r e s e a r c h . D r. K . C h e s s o n , a s t u d e n t o f Te x a s A & M U S A , p r e s e n t e d a n N D s e n s i t i v i t y s t u d y. T h e s e w e r e i n v i t e d f o r e i g n s p e a k e r s . Production of experimental ND from Indian laboratories is yet not very active, although some presentations were made from BARC (Pelletron), Pune University (14 MeV N. S.) and Mangalore University (Microtron 8 MeV

electron accelerator). Others were on works using research reactors, ND evaluation

studies

and

reactor

physics

related

works.

For

an

evening

attraction, they arranged a fusion music show in the Art and Dancing Hall of Campus. Dancing arts are respectful tradition in India. This fusion music as symbiosis of western classic music and domestic Indian music did beat my ears with very impressive harmony of tones and singing voice. O n t h e l a s t d a y 11 need

for

Indian

Chandrachoodan,

a

th

N o v e m b e r, t h e y a r r a n g e d a r o u n d t a b l e d i s c u s s i o n o n

Nuclear

Data

senior

official

C e n t e r. from

the

Moderator office

of

was the

D r. BRNS,

P.

P.

DAE.

R e q u e s t e d b y t h e m o d e r a t o r, I m a d e c o m m e n t s t h a t I n d i a a s t h e 2 1

st

Century’s coming big power in nuclear industry should hurry up to establish

its own NDC, since their competing BRICs countries as China has had already NDC in 1970s and have been accumulating own data bases and k n o w - h o w s . I t i s l a t e f o r I n d i a t o s t a r t u p n o w, b u t i s n o t t o o l a t e . I n d i a h a s m a n y w e l l e d u c a t e d p e o p l e , e s p e c i a l l y i n I T ( I n f o r m a t i o n Te c h n o l o g y ) , b u t i t s e r i o u s l y l a c k s f a c i l i t i e s o f h a r d w a r e s . E s p e c i a l l y, t o p r o v i d e f u n d s f r o m Government

to

Universities

and

National

Institutes

for

constructing

modern experimental tools as accelerator-based intense neutron sources is of key for promoting sound development of ND activities in India. D r. S . G a n e s a n ( B A R C ) , t h e c o n v e n e r o f W o r k s h o p , i s t h e k e y m e m b e r o f t h i s p r o p o s a l . D r. N i c h o l a s , I A E A , m a d e k e y s u g g e s t i o n s o n N D e v a l u a t i o n activities in general and stressed the need to collaborate with international ND evaluation activities in advanced countries and IAEA. India will set up Indian NDC in BARC soon. Mangalore locates on the sea coast of Arabic Sea, and has rather scattered towns in hill-sides of up- and down-streets. Although town buildings were n o t b e a u t i f u l , m a n y t r o p i c a l t r e e s c o u l d m i t i g a t e s c e n e r y.

There were not

many tourist-visiting spots, except the French style chapel with beautiful fresco pictures inside the main hall. We e s c a p e d f r o m t h e Wo r k s h o p f o r a c o u p l e o f d a y s t o m a k e e x c u r s i o n b y t h e H o t e l c a r. B e a u t i f u l c o u n t r y s i d e w a s e x t e n d e d w i t h d e e p f o r e s t s . I n t h e morning along streets, there were seen so many school pupils wearing colorful uniforms. They were walking for schools making queues. Ladies were also walking with colorful saris which made wonderful contrast with full green trees of forest. In contrast to dirty town areas, Indian country sides were seen very beautiful as far as we saw in this tour escaping from b i g c i t i e s . E s p e c i a l l y t r e e s a l o n g s t r e e t s w e r e s o b i g a n d n i c e . We v i s i t e d t h e 1000 Pillar Basadi, Moodabidri, which was the old Jain temple with so many differently designed and carved stone-pillars. This temple is not so large one as the Jain temple in Ellora which we visited later from Aurangabad, but reserves high-level art. The Sri Gomateshwara statue, Karkala, which

stood on the top of a single rock hill is the very famous Jain statue, Buddhal i k e s t a t u e b u t w i t h p e n i s s t r a n g e l y. T h e S r i K r i s h n a Te m p l e i n U d u p i , i n 4 0 k m n o r t h o f M a n g a l o r e , i s t h e v e r y a c t i v e H i n d u t e m p l e . We c o u l d g e t i n s i d e the temple core to see praying naked (with towel around waist) people. In every active Hindu temple, we had to take our shoes off. This habit was a bit trouble

to

tourists,

since

floors

were

dirty

in

most

places.

We

saw

beautifully decorated festival cars outside the temple. These type festival cars (floats) would be the roots of Japanese floats in festivals of Shintoh shrines.

W e a l s o v i s i t e d S r i K s h e t r a Te m p l e i n D h a r m a s t a l a , i n 1 0 0 k m e a s t o f Mangalore. This was very active Hindu temple town with nice museum.

4. Chennai D r. J . K u m a r a n d M r. a n d M r s . S r i n i v a s a n c a m e t o s e e u s a t C h e n n a i A i r p o r t on

the

evening

of

12

th

N o v e m b e r.

D r.

Kumar

has

been

assisting

the

CMNS/CF community since ICCF10 for type-setting proceedings papers for ICCF10 through ICCF12. He has done wonderful works, and now is going to

assist Jean-Paul Biberian,

(Editor-in-Chief), for publishing the E-Journal of CMNS. Kumar sent us by his car to Hotel Quality Inn Sabori in the central Chennai, where we five people took dinner together with in a Chinese restaurant. On the 13

th

morning, we 5 people started the hotel to visit Kanchipuram,

t h e G o l d e n C i t y o f T h o u s a n d Te m p l e s , a s a m a j o r H i n d u p i l g r i m a n d c u l t u r a l c e n t e r . T h e E k a m b a r n a t h a r Te m p l e ( M a n g o Te m p l e ) , d e d i c a t e d t o L o r d S i v a , is one of the largest temples in the town. There were seen several tall gopuram-towers with so many precisely carved statues of men, women, gods a n d a n i m a l s . We s a w f a n t a s t i c v i e w o f t h e b i g t e m p l e b u i l d i n g s f r o m t h e e n t r a n c e g a t e o f g o p u r a m . M o r e o v e r, t h e m o s t s u r p r i s i n g b e a u t y w a s i n i t s so many very decorative stone-carved pillars making a long passage and a fantastic gallery surrounding the heart of temple, the place where a big mango tree used to be standing in the backside of Siva statue (set inside a stone room) – now a young mango tree is planted to grow up. This Hindu temple was the most wonderful active temple we saw in India this time. K a n c h i p u r a m i s a l s o f a m o u s w i t h i t s s i l k p r o d u c t s . We v i s i t e d a s m a l l private factory weaving saris. After visiting weaving works, the master of

the house showed us samples of saris, which shined with rainbow-like lights

to charm up visitors. My wife bought finally an expensive one for our Indian

friend living in the neighborhood of our home in Osaka. D r. K u m a r k i n d l y d r o v e u s t o t h e Te m p l e B a y H o t e l , a f i v e s t a r r e s o r t h o t e l for foreign tourists on the sea coast of Mahabalipuram which is famous for the UNESCO world heritage of coast temples. Animals and Hindu memorial pagodas were carved from a single big stone and making a queue in sand. On the 14th morning, I and Dr. M. Srinivasan went to IGCAR (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research) in Kalpakkam near Mahabalipuram. In the same site of IGCAR, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. - A Public Sector Undertaking spearheading India's nuclear power programme locates to operate two CANDU 220MWe type power reactors. Also in addition, in Kalpakkam, one FBR-500 MWe sodium cooled demo fast reactor is under construction by Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI) which is another wholly owned Enterprise of Government of India under the administrative control of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). After my two lectures, we visited a mini reactor with U-233 fuel which was designed by M. Srinivasn team at that time (construction and test operation completed in 1996) from BARC. This is the world-first Th-232 fuel c y c l e r e a c t o r. I n d i a i s e x p e c t i n g t o p u t l a r g e w e i g h t o n t h e T h - U 2 3 3 f u e l cycle for their nuclear energy supply in future, due to abundant resource of Th-232 in India. When this Th-U233 cycle would be established, it would be a b l e t o s u p p l y m o r e t h a n 1 0 0 0 y e a r s e n e r g y n e e d o f t h e w o r l d – s o f a r, I n d i a would be the leading nation of world if so in future. I made two lectures at IGCAR. One was the nuclear data (DDX) works as same

as

my talk in Mangalore.

Audiences could admire

our works by

O K T AV I A N , a s w a s m y t a l k i n N W N D - 2 0 0 6 . T h e n e x t o n e h o u r t a l k w a s o n the CMNS up-date. I stressed that we have recently got concrete evidences to show existence of new type nuclear processes under the circumstances of d e u t e r i u m - c o n t a i n e d c o n d e n s e d m a t t e r, e s p e c i a l l y P d D x s y s t e m s ; 1 ) c l e a n excess heat generation with

4

He ash, 2) cold (selective) transmutation of

host and/or added elements, and 3) proposal of predictable theoretical

models consistent with conventional physics theories. I have got tired in t h e f i n a l p a r t o f t a l k . D r. S r i n i v a s a n h e l p e d m e t o c o m p l e m e n t a d d i t i o n a l words of explanation. The confirmation of these new phenomena by many world laboratories would make a very strong impact on basic science and e n e r g y a p p l i c a t i o n , I s t r e s s e d . We t h o u g h t t h a t m y C M N S t a l k w a s w e l l received among non-CF believers of IGCAR. Most audiences were reactor physicists and nuclear physicists. On the same day evening, we arrived at the home residence of Chino. Chino a n d h i s w i f e Va s a n t h a w e r e s o k i n d t o p r o v i d e u s t w o n i g h t s s t a y a t a b e d room of their house. I and my wife enjoyed ethnic tastes of Southern Indian f o o d s w h i c h Va s a n t h a a n d C h i n o c o o k e d a n d s e r v e d . H o m e - c o o k e d f o o d s w e r e delicious. This home stay in an Indian family was of our another exotic e x p e r i e n c e i n t h e t o u r.

On 15

th

, D r. K u m a r c a m e a g a i n t o b r i n g u s f o r C h e n n a i s i g h t s e e i n g . W e

dropped in a big Theosophical Society Campus near Chino’s home, which wa s founded by a USA colonel and Chino was born there in the Campus as a son

of Theosophist. There were seen collections of imitated monument-buildings of various religions in the world. There we saw also the second largest B a n y a n Tr e e f o r e s t ( s i n g l e t r e e f o r e s t ) , a f t e r o n e i n C a l c u t t a . T h e o s o p h i s t s look having been trying to understand totally the human spiritual acts in linkage of sciences and religions.

The second successor of president of the

Society was a British lady Annie Besant, who made a strange but surprising predictive works on substructure of atoms. In her “occult chemistry”, she could predict sub-quark level composition of proton (hydrogen) consisted of 18 sub-quark level particles. The structure of this occult view could follow the up- and down-quark structure of present day’s elementary particle physics, so that the occult chemistry gave a shock to Chino and other investigators. Of course, in my view of modern particle physics, Annie’s occult chemistry has many substantial contradictions in fine points and is n o t c o m p l e t e . H o w e v e r, C h i n o i s k e e p i n g t h e t h e o s o p h i c a l i d e a f r o m t h e beginning of his birth and he is now the President of the Chennai Section of t h e S o c i e t y.

It is very interesting prediction already in 1917. Chino is studying this

occult chemistry being completely independent of CMNS research. B y t h e w a y, I t h i n k , w e C M N S r e s e a r c h e r s m u s t b e c a r e f u l t o k e e p s t r i c t rationalism

to

establish the

sweep new

out

field

of

all

the

contradictions

CMNS. I

am

not a

and

defects,

so

as

to

believer of such occult

c h e m i s t r y. T h e e x p l a n a t i o n o f C M N S p h e n o m e n a s h o u l d n o t b e a t t r i b u t e d t o o c c u l t s c i e n c e s o r a l c h e m y. Chennai is a big city with its about 6 millions population. Feature of the town was however felt more peaceful than Bangalore, due to less chaotic traffics and finer buildings along streets. There are traces of the former B r i t i s h c o l o n y, s u c h a s S t . G e o r g e C h u r c h , M a d r a s U n i v e r s i t y a n d H i g h Court House. I n t h e l a s t n i g h t i n C h e n n a i , D r. K u m a r a n d h i s b r i l l i a n t s o n , f i r s t y e a r i n h i g h s c h o o l , j o i n e d i n t h e f a r e w e l l p a r t y a t C h i n o ’s h o m e . We t a l k e d a n d t a l k e d o n v a r i o u s t o p i c s , e n j o y i n g Ta m i l N a d u f o o d s a n d d r i n k s .

5. Mumbai The chaos of people was peaked here in Mumbai as we saw in arriving car drive

from

Airport,

through

crowds

of

gushing

out

people,

jamming

auto-rikishas and cars, to the Hotel Sea Princess in Juhu Beach of Mumbai.

The hotel, as Ganesan recommended us with BARC’s discount rate, wa s comfortable to stay with usual conditions as in Japanese standard hotels. We f o u n d i t i n I n d i a t h a t w e h a d t o p a y m o r e m o n e y t h a n w h a t w e n e e d e d i n living with similar conditions in Japan, European and American Countries. If we could pay so, safe tours were guaranteed in India. The Sea Princess Hotel locates in the beautiful Juhu Beach with fine-grain sand and shallow s e a w a t e r. I n e v e r y e a r l y m o r n i n g a n d e v e n i n g , s o m a n y p e o p l e c a m e h e r e for walking and jogging. The hotel site was so peaceful, because it was i s o l a t e d a n d g u a r d e d b y h o t e l s t a f f s f r o m o u t s i d e h u s t l e a n d b u s t l e . We stayed totally for 8 nights in this hotel.

On 17

th

N o v e m b e r, w e v i s i t e d t h e B A R C G u e s t H o u s e C o m p l e x i n t h e

colony – residential village of BARC employees which looked similar to those

of

Chinese

Universities

as

Peking

and

Ts i n g h u a ;

many

apartment-buildings, schools, bank and shopping center were packed inside the colony surrounded by fence. The BARC research site was adjacent to the village. D r. A . V. R . R e d d y i n v i t e d m e t o h a v e a t a l k i n t h e C F N A A 2 0 0 6 m e e t i n g a t Seminar Hall of the Guest House Complex. This was the Indian conference on

neutron

activation

NWND-2006 irradiation

in

analysis

Mangalore,

experiments.

I

but was

(NAA).

I

made

the

stressing

more

on

the

only

one

same 14

foreign

talk

MeV

speaker

with

neutron in

the

conference. Ganesan told me that my talk was very good. A BARC scientist w a s a s k i n g m e a b o u t t h e d e t a i l o f O K T AV I A N f a c i l i t y, f o r B A R C w a s w i l l i n g to

construct

Measurements

a

similar with

one.

Osaka

14

My

paper

MeV

entitled

Neutron

“Experience

Source”

was

of

DDX

published

in

P r o c e e d i n g s o f D A E - B R N S D i s c u s s i o n M e e t o n C u r r e n t Tr e n d s a n d F u t u r e Perspectives of Neutron Activation Analysis, November 16-17, 2006, Board o f R e s e a r c h i n N u c l e a r S c i e n c e s , D e p a r t m e n t o f A t o m i c E n e r g y, I n d i a In the weekend (18-19

th

), we tried excursions of sight seeing in down town

and outer-skirt of Mumbai. BARC arranged a cheaper (1,500Rs for a day t o u r ) c a r w i t h d r i v e r a n d g u i d e f o r u s . We v i s i t e d a n d l o o k e d M u s e u m , V T ( V i c t o r i a Te r m i n a l ; r a i l w a y s t a t i o n ) , G a t e o f I n d i a , T a j M a h a l H o t e l a n d Mumbai

U n i v e r s i t y,

most

of

which

are

famous

heritages

of

the

UK

colonization governing center and were making European atmosphere in the south end down-town area, although buildings were dirty with dusts piled o n s u r f a c e s . To g e t t h e r e a n d b a c k t o t h e S e a P r i n c e s s a t J u h u B e a c h , w e h a d to waste most hours of day in queues of chaotic jams of auto-tricycles, taxis, cars and buses. Every vehicle had to take small gaps among jamming vehicles, ignoring lanes of road, to go forward. When car was stopping, t h e r e c a m e b e g g a r s a n d h a r d - s e l l e r s t o h i t w i n d o w s o f c a r. W e s h o u l d n e v e r

respond to these.

On the 19

th

morning, we started to go into outer-skirt of Mumbai aiming at

v i s i t i n g t h e K a n h e r i c a v e s i n N a t i o n a l P a r k . We e v e n t u a l l y f o u n d t h a t t h e driver and escort did not know the place, and we went far away to get out the

expanding

frontier

of

Mumbai

c i t y.

We

got

lost

and

wasted

time.

H o w e v e r, w e c o u l d a c c i d e n t a l l y s e e t h e f e a t u r e o f e x p a n d i n g M u m b a i , w i t h new apartment areas and huge slums. Mumbai has about 20 millions of population now and still increasing by 0.8 million people getting into the c i t y a r e a e v e r y y e a r, t o r e a c h p o p u l a t i o n o f 3 2 m i l l i o n s i n 2 0 1 5 ( b y t h e prediction of National Geographic). The city area extends 80 km x 50 km w i d e . M u m b a i h a s n o d o w n - t o w n c e n t e r s a s To k y o , O s a k a , N e w - Yo r k a n d Boston with many tall intelligent buildings. Most tall buildings were of pile-ups with concrete plus thin reinforced steel-sticks. If there would come an earthquake, we would have to see catastrophe. construct complete.

urban I

high

think,

way they

net-work, better

but

give

the

up

tempo

They are trying to looked

motorization,

so

slow

because

to the

air-pollution in Mumbai is already over the limit of perseverance. I and my

wife were coughing after one day drive through the town. My wife took a day rest in room of the hotel, during my lecture in BARC, and the coughing was o v e r. T h e To k y o m e t r o p o l i t a n a r e a h a s a b o u t 2 5 m i l l i o n s o f p o p u l a t i o n , a n d has 14 metro-lines and urban- and suburban-networks of JR and private railway companies of electric trains. In contrast, Mumbai has no metro lines, nor net-worked suburban trains. Among big Indian cities, only Delhi a n d C a l c u t t a h a v e o n e m e t r o l i n e , r e s p e c t i v e l y. M u m b a i , l i k e o t h e r b i g Indian

cities,

has

to

hurry

up

to

construct

net-work

of

electric

mass-transport systems like subways (metros) and sky-monorail trains. The green-house

effect

by

polluted

exhaust

gases

from

uncontrolled

auto-vehicles has made the city to be hot spot; very high temperature (around 34 degree C in day time, duri ng our stay in Winter) under always foggy smog of SOx and NOx, which recalled me 50 years ago in Osaka; – Japan had made great effort to decrease exhausted SOx and NOx from vehicles

and

industrial

factories

in

1960-1980

to

have

developed

technologies for eco-tools, and has now realized rather clean airs in large cities. China and India should follow the same route.

On 20

th

N o v e m b e r, I m a d e a l e c t u r e o n C M N S / C F i n N u c l e a r P h y s i c s

Section of BARC, where every scientist was non-believer and serious critic of Cold Fusion. I could have about two hours for lecture, so that I mentioned some details of convincing experiments like Israeli-Italia-American work on excess

heat

with

helium

generation

and

MHI

work

on

cold

selective

t r a n s m u t a t i o n , a n d t h e o r e t i c a l e x p l a n a t i o n s b y, f o r e x a m p l e , m y d e u t e r o n cluster

fusion

model

(EQPET/TSC).

I

stressed

that

the

transient

condensation of deuteron cluster under Platonic tetrahedral symmetry with bosonization of associated electrons was of key for new-type of nuclear r e a c t i o n s t o a p p e a r i n c o n d e n s e d m a t t e r. M a n y q u e s t i o n s c a m e u p d u r i n g the talk from nuclear physicists, but none of which was denying what I was talking. I think, they got good impressions that CMNS studies were not in contradiction to existing conventional physics and worthwhile to study more. They gave me 2,500 Rs honorarium, which was great help for me to pay cost for two days tour on 18-19 November for sight-seeing. We t h o u g h t t o h a v e f i n i s h e d l e c t u r e - t a s k s a n d w e r e r e l a x e d t o g o f o r sight-seeing tour of world heritages near Aurangabad.

6. Aurangabad Aurangabad is a medium size city on Deccan Plateau. It has 52 gates of city-walled old town. Usually in China (as Peking and Xian) and Thailand (as Chiang Mai), as well as Europe, we saw only 4-6 gates of one walled old c i t y. I n s i d e t h e t o w n w a s f u l l c o n t i n u a t i o n o f l o w - s t o r i e s - c o n c r e t e b u i l d i n g s w i t h d i r t y c o n s t r u c t i o n , p e o p l e - a n d - p e o p l e a n d a u t o - r i k i s h a s . We w e r e u s e d t o s u c h c h a o s , a l r e a d y. T h e c i t y h a s h o w e v e r a s m a l l T a j M a h a l , l i k e m i n i a t u r e s e t o f Ta j M a h a l i n A g r a , a n d a M o g u l E m p i r e F o r t o n t o p o f s t e e p rock-mountain with 7 layers of defense walls, which we saw on the way to Ellora. Rama International Hotel where we stayed in for two nights was a w e s t e r n i z e d m o d e r n r e s o r t h o t e l . We w e r e v e r y r e l a x e d t o s t a y t h e r e .

Aim of tourists coming to Aurangabad must be of course to visit famous UNESCO world heritages as Ajanta and Ellora locating in 105 km and 45 km d i s t a n c e s f r o m t h e c e n t r a l A u r a n g a b a d , r e s p e c t i v e l y. We n e e d e d o n e d a y t r i p t o s e e A j a n t a B u d d h i s m c a v e s . T h e t o l l r o a d t o Ajanta, constructed by the loan of Japanese Government, was nicely smooth to reach the visiting center amenity in 2 hours. On the way we could enjoy s o b e a u t i f u l c o u n t r y - s i d e s w i t h a g r i c u l t u r a l f i e l d s , m e a d o w s a n d t r e e s . We saw many people going to field works in cotton-fields and sugar-cane-fields or to road-construction works, and many pupils in colorful uniforms going to schools. The Deccan Plateau was seen really flat with somewhere standing t a b l e - m o u n t a i n s . T h e l a n d l o o k e d a r a b l e w i d e l y. T h i s m u s t b e t h e r i c h n e s s of the Indo-subcontinent. Indian people can have enough foods to survive in warm climate, and therefore population will increase more and more as m o d e r n i z a t i o n c o m e s i n t o . H o w e v e r , w e s a w, l a d i e s w e r e c a r r y i n g h e a v y p o t s of water on their heads. The driver of Hotel car said that they had to carry water every day from rather distant wells or streams, and it (water) was a big problem allover India. Ladies should work hard from morning to evening, compared to milder or idling works of men: a gender problem. A field worker c a n e a r n a b o u t 4 0 R s a d a y, w h i c h w a s c o m p a r a b l e t o t i p s I h a n d e d t o a h o t e l b e l l b o y. T h e l a n d i n c o u n t r y - s i d e w a s s o b e a u t i f u l , b e c a u s e o f n o n - p o l l u t e d

environment by not-yet-modernization, but people were poor for much less i n c o m e a l t h o u g h t h e y m i g h t f e e l t h e i r l i v e s h a p p y. To w h e r e I n d i a g o e s f r o m now-on!

Almost

every

body

has

a

mobile,

a

cell

phone.

In

contrast,

infrastructures are far from modernized ones. Many Indian people look well e d u c a t e d a n d k e e p i n g c l e a r b r a i n s , a n d c a n s p e a k f l u e n t E n g l i s h m o s t l y. H o w e v e r,

India

lacks

modern

hard-ware

systems

in

daily

lives

and

industries. They have to overcome with this primitive mismatching in some d a y. To v i s i t A j a n t a c a v e s , t o u r i s t s h a v e t o t a k e ‘ e c o - b u s ’ f r o m t h e a m e n i t y c e n t e r . To b e o u r s u r p r i s e , e c o - b u s w a s a c t u a l l y a n o i s y o l d b u s w i t h o u t e x h a u s t g a s c o n t r o l . We i m a g i n e d a n e l e c t r i c c a r f r o m t o u r i s t b o o k s . W h a t a m i s s - s p e c u l a t i o n i t w a s ! H o w e v e r, t h i s c a n b e a s y s t e m t o c o l l e c t m o n e y routinely from tourists. Entry fee for foreigners was almost 20 times (5-10 USD = 250 – 500 Rs) of one (10-20 Rs) for Indian domestic people. They reasoned; when Indian people visited Japanese temples they had to pay so much fee as 5-10 USD (600- 1200 JPY), that why not we charge same money

t o f o r e i g n e r s . We l l , w e d o n o t h o w e v e r d i s c o u n t t o b e 1 / 2 0 o f e n t r a n c e f e e o f Japanese tourist spots for visiting foreigners as Indian! The Ajanta caves were however fantastic Buddhism heritage, surprising c a r v e d t e m p l e s i n a s i n g l e r o c k c l i f f o f 5 0 0 m l o n g a l o n g a s m a l l r i v e r v a l l e y. We s a w r u i n s o f s o p r e c i s e f r e s c o p a i n t i n g s o n w a l l s o f c a r v e d t e m p l e s . I t was great pity to see that most paintings were damaged naturally in long years and artificially by invaders. The Ajanta caves were looked just c o m p a r a b l e i n s i z e a n d a r t - l e v e l t o t h e f a m o u s D u n g h u a n g c a v e s i n We s t China, which I visited in 1984. The Dunghuan caves still reserve original colors of paintings and statues. I saw the fresco paintings in Ajanta were reflecting in very high level of precise painting-art of Indian people at that time. Among many carved temples, the 26 On the next day (23

rd

th

cave was felt the best.

November), we visited the Ellora caves, 45 km from

t h e A u r a n g a b a d c i t y c e n t e r. O n t h e w a y, w e w e r e s o h a p p y t o s e e b i g s t r e e t trees of Banyan. Banyan trees hanged so many ‘air-roots’ which would reach to earth soil to grow new stems of tree-system to be finally a big single tree forest. The road with big Banyan street trees was the most beautiful road which I have ever seen. Surprises of visitors to see the Ellora carved temples were written in many places, so that I need not to repeat it. For us, the 12

th

cave of Buddhism

temple with three story architecture with so many statues looked the greatest. By seeing the 32nd cave of Jain temple, I understood that the composition

of

three-statues

set,

as

Ya k u s h i - N y o r a i

(central

Buddha

statue) sandwiched (guarded) with Nikkou-Bosatsu (sun-light statue) and G a k k o u - B a s a t s u ( m o o n - l i g h t s t a t u e ) i n Ya k u s h i j i - Te m p l e i n N a r a J a p a n h a s far

roots

here

in

Jain

temples.

Sandwiching

the

central

Gomateshuwara-statue, male- and female-statues were positioned in righta n d l e f t - s i d e s , r e s p e c t i v e l y. I n B u d d h i s t t e m p l e s , a s s e e n i n t h e 1 2

th

cave,

a set of three statues keeps the same positions, but gender is neutralized. All

Buddha

statues

are

not

men

nor

women,

but

neutral

symbols

of

Buddhism-spirits. This must be the evolution of human belief to Buddhism, probably from Jaina. We r e t u r n e d t o t h e S e a P r i n c e s s H o t e l i n M u m b a i w i t h q u i t e s a t i s f i e d s o u l s ,

and was talking each other to have a long rest on 24

th

in hotel. Then I

p h o n e d t o D r. G a n e s a n t o r e p o r t o u r r e t u r n . I h e a r d , h e s a i d s o m e i n hurrying voice; “Prof. Bhoraskar of Pune University is asking you to visit his laboratory tomorrow!” What!

7. Pune On the 24

th

morning, we were on the way to Pune. A young colleague of

G a n e s a n , D r. D e v e s h R a j c a m e t o g e t h e r t o g u i d e u s . To p a s s t h r o u g h t r a f f i c jams in Mumbai and New Mumbai areas, we could run smoothly on nice high w a y, c o m p a r a b l e t o G e r m a n a u t o b a h n , r e a c h i n g t o P u n e a b i g c i t y o f 2 . 5 million population which locates on the west end zone of Deccan Plateau. T h e y s a y, t h i s i s t h e o n l y o n e n i c e h i g h w a y i n I n d i a . ( A c t u a l l y, w e s a w n i c e 4 lane highway from Chennai suburbs to Kanchipuram, then going for Bangalore.) Pune locates at 175 km away from Mumbai. The distance is too short to introduce airplane business. Instead they might have hurried up to c o n s t r u c t a m o d e r n 4 - 6 l a n e h i g h w a y. W e d i d n o t s e e s l u m i n P u n e . We a r r i v e d a t P h y s i c s D e p a r t m e n t o f P u n e U n i v e r s i t y a t a b o u t n o o n t i m e . P u n e U n i v e r s i t y, f o u n d e d i n 1 9 5 2 a n d r a n k e d w i t h i n t o p 5 u n i v e r s i t i e s i n India, has a huge campus with forested trees which they had converted from the

former

British

Governor ’s

house

after

the

1947

Liberation

and

I n d e p e n d e n c e . We m a d e l a b o r a t o r y t o u r t o s e e t h e i r a c c e l e r a t o r s , a 1 4 M e V neutron source with 200 keV energy acceleration and an electron Microtron w i t h 8 M e V a c c e l e r a t i o n e n e r g y, b o t h o f w h i c h w e r e h o m e - m a d e i n t h e University by Prof. Bhoraskar and his colleagues. They wanted to improve the 14 MeV source to be pulsed with few ns width and to increase neutron y i e l d . W e d i s c u s s e d a b o u t p r o b l e m s t o s o l v e . I n m y v i e w, t h e h o m e - m a d e system was looking too old and primitive, like old accelerators when I was student in 1960s in Japan or much older than small accelerators in Chinese leading

universities.

So,

I

recommended;

they

better

start

from

the

b e g i n n i n g t o d e s i g n , g e t b u d g e t a n d c o n s t r u c t n e w f a c i l i t y, b e c a u s e o f n o enough space available in their old department building. They will need a

new building facility to improve radiation shielding capability and security check, also. We m e t i n P u n e U n i v e r s i t y t h r e e f o r m e r v i s i t i n g p r o f e s s o r s i n N a g o y a U n i v e r s i t y J a p a n , P r o f . B h o r a s k a r a n d P r o f . M r s . B h o r a s k a r a n d D r. S a n j a y Dhole.

D r.

Sanjay-san

and

Prof.

Bhoraskar

stayed

in

Kenji

Morita’s

l a b o r a t o r y i n N u c l e a r E n g i n e e r i n g o f N a g o y a U n i v e r s i t y. P r o f . E m e r i t u s Kenji Morita was my elder brother student in the same laboratory of Osaka U n i v e r s i t y i n 1 9 6 2 - 6 5 . We e n j o y e d p l a y i n g t e n n i s i n t h o s e o l d d a y s . I t w a s i n d e e d b y c h a n c e t o k n o w t h a t D r. J . K u m a r w h o k i n d l y h o s t e d u s i n Chennai and has been assisting the CMNS community was studied in Pune University under Prof. Bhoraskar in Physics. Our world is not so large! O n t h e w a y b a c k , w e d r o p p e d i n t h e f l a t o f G a n e s a n f a m i l y n e a r B A R C . We w e r e h o s t e d b y I n d i a n c h a i ( m i l k - t e a ) . W e i n v i t e d M r. a n d M r s . G a n e s a n f o r d i n n e r a t O r i e n t a l R e s t a u r a n t i n t h e S e a P r i n c e s s . We s t a r t e d f r o m t h e i r flat at 19:00 expecting to reach at 20:00, but we could arrive in there at about 21:00 due to so heavy traffic jams everywhere on roads. It took 2 hours

for

16

km

drive!

Te r r i b l e !

We

could

however

enjoy

laughing

c o n v e r s a t i o n s w i t h g o o d m e a l s , a n d s a i d f i n a l l y b y e - b y e a t t h e l o b b y.

8. Impression of India I n d i a o n t h e s u b c o n t i n e n t i s a h u g e c o u n t r y. W e c o u l d s e e o n l y a p o r t i o n o f India this time. Even so, we found the features of towns were almost same in most cities and country sides. Big cities were groaning under the pollution and noisy traffics with too many people and expanding slum. Country sides were so beautiful with forests, arable fields, and wonderful street trees. The land looked so rich for supplying enough foods for increasing population. Many people carry modern IT tools, namely mobiles. Many people are highly educated. modern

H o w e v e r,

hard-ware

industries

and

something systems

mismatching

and

exists.

infrastructures

urban-suburban

transport

One in

systems

is

the

homes,

for

lack

of

colleges,

people,

w a t e r,

c o m m e r c e a n d i n d u s t r y. I n d i a h a s a l o t o f c u l t u r a l l y h i g h l e v e l h e r i t a g e s , like Mahabalipuram, Ajanta and Ellora. However a systematic tourism does n o t e x i s t i n I n d i a . E v e n t o u r i s t m a p s w e r e n o t a v a i l a b l e . Wa n d e r i n g b e g g a r s and hard-sellers in, for example, Ellora and Ajanta should be swept out, for tourists to feel like to drop in shops in amenities. Now tourists are hurried up

to

pass

through

shops-zones

to

avoid

trouble

with

beggars

and

hard-sellers. Ve g e t a r i a n f o o d s a r e t y p i c a l i n I n d i a w i t h f u l l c u r r y t a s t e s . T h e b e s t t h r e e I

tasted

were;

Aurangabad,

1)

which

just-baked was

‘nan’

really

good

from

Rama

beer-mate,

International 2)

fish-curry

Hotel at

Ta j

Manjuran Hotel Mangalore, and 3) soya mutter curry at a restaurant in Pune. Papaya fruits in India were wonderfully good, much better than those in

Chiang

Mai

Thailand.

Ve g e t a r i a n s

are

taking

necessary

energy

by

Ve g - f o o d s . M y w i f e s p e c u l a t e s t h a t t h e y h a v e t o g r i n d g r a i n s a n d v e g e t a b l e s t o m a k e p o w d e r, t o c o n d e n s e b y c o o k i n g t o h i g h e r c a l o r i e r a t e , a n d p u t i n curry in every food for sanitary reason. They can not eat noodle-like things, because

hands

can

not

be

put

into

hot

soup.

By

introducing

the

knife-and-fork (spoon or chopsticks) habit, they can surely extend the variety of foods and escape from the curry-only style. Foreigners are then

easy to access. The status of Indian nuclear science and technology has some advantages in the development of Th-U233 cycle fission reactor energy production systems.

H o w e v e r,

supporting

pyramid

of

basic

sciences

has

keeping

weakness of primitive hard-wares for producing creative experimental data. The present level seems in 20 years behind those in Chinese Institutes and Universities. As I could see this time only a small part of experimental facilities in India, there might be world-advanced facilities elsewhere. The Government

should

however

invest

appropriate

funds

to

open

Inter-university facilities like accelerator-based intense neutron sources. The opening and growing-up of Indian Nuclear Data Centre is one of key factors for India to develop its own systematic nuclear industries. I hope, they also find interests on new fields like CMNS to develop basic sciences. Indian young people are looking well educated in IT technologies and b u s i n e s s , t h r o u g h C A T ( C e n t r a l A d m i s s i o n Te s t ) a n d o t h e r s t o c o m p e t e a n d train

people.

But,

experiences

treating

and

producing

hard-wares

are

lacking. Unless they change the situation to take balance of knowledge, India would not be a leading country in the 22

nd

c e n t u r y.

Acknowledgement: I cordially appreciate Drs. M. Srinivasan and S. Ganesan for their kind hospitality to our lecture tour in India. Without their helps, we could not have so smooth and happy experiences.