Jaduguda/Jharkhand: After a great research for the underground lab Indian physicists have finally got a laboratory deep underground almost half-a-kilometer below the earth’s surface to hunt for “dark matter”, the elusive glue that holds galaxies together, A form of energy and matter, it has avoid detection so far, To search for dark matter, scientists need to dive deep underground, so their experiments are shielded from trespasser like cosmic rays and other radiations, The rock overhead is expected to absorb these unwelcome rays that interfere with the experiments; Scientists from Kolkata’s Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics are organizing the group manning the new laboratory, which was inaugurated three days ago on september 2nd by Dr Sekhar Basu, who was the India’s nuclear chief he said that ” Tomorrow, we may know of different types of planets made up of dark matter, different types of life forms, there is enormous potential for enhancing knowledge.
The laboratory located in a left cave of deep underground uranium located in Jadubuda of JharkhandIt was about 260 km from Kolkata and 150 km from the capital city of Ranchi, from which about 400 tons of uranium was being extracted, It is India’s first uranium mine, now uranium is extracted from a layer below 880 meters below the surface of the earth, the laboratory is 555 meters underground, It was set up at a cost of a Rs. 20 lakh, Satyajit Saha, lead researcher for the project at SINP said that “There was an almost ready made cavern available which has been converted into an underground laboratory,” to enter the lab there will be a highly secure zone of the complex owned by Uranium Corporation of India, It takes 3 minutes to reach the insides of this uranium mine, from where the lab is a short walk, But scientists hope the new lab will help loosen the mystery”Twenty five years later, India has another underground research facility, although not very deep.
