Kavita Murthy

Affiliation

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Biography

Kavita Murthy is the director of the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Regulatory Program Division at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. She has been a regulatory program director at the CNSC for nearly 14 years and been in her present position for 8 months. Her current responsibilities comprise all of the major CNL sites including Chalk River Laboratories, Whiteshell Laboratories and the Port Hope Area Initiative. Previously, Kavita has led the regulatory oversight of uranium processing facilities and accelerator and other radiation therapy facilities in Canada. Kavita holds two master’s in physics degrees in physics from McGill University.