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- The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF’s) has given environmental clearance to India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project to be set up in Bodi West hills in Tamil Nadu.
- The approval was given by MoEF’s Expert Appraisal Committee after taking up INO project issue as special case.
- The project will now be sent for an approval from Tamil Nadu government and National Board of Wildlife (NBWL), as Mathikettan Shola National Park in Kerala’s Idukki district is about 4.9km from the proposed site.
- Neutrinos are sub-atomic particles produced by the decay of the radioactive elements and are elementary particles that lack an electric charge
- Neutrinos are key to understanding the evolution of the universe and energy production in the sun and other stars.
- It is jointly supported by Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Department of Science & Technology (DST), with DAE acting as the nodal agency.
- The project aims at building a world-class underground laboratory with a rock cover of approximately 1200 meter.
- Its mandate is to conduct basic research on elementary particle called neutrino.
- The observatory will be located underground in order to provide adequate shielding to the neutrino detector from cosmic background radiation.
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