Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology (BRIT)

Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology (BRIT), a constituent unit of the Department of Atomic Energy is responsible for

· Production and supply of a variety of radioisotope products including radiopharmaceutical and associated products, radio immunoassay kits, radiochemicals, radiolabeled compounds and nucleotides and also sealed radiation sources such as Cobalt-60, Iridium-192, Caesium-137 etc.

· Radiation technology equipment such as gamma radiography cameras, blood irradiators and laboratory gamma irradiators, promoting radiation processing technology for use in healthcare, food processing and agriculture and rendering radiation processing services for medical products, spices, condiments and other products, propagating radiation technology and providing facilitation services to private entrepreneurs to set up commercial gamma radiation processing plants.

Radioisotopes produced in the research reactors in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and also in the power reactors of NPCIL are processed and formulated into a variety of products in the laboratories of BRIT and supplied to a large number of institutions in the country as well as abroad for use in Industry, healthcare, agriculture and supporting research in life sciences and Bio Sciences.