India’s long delayed Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR), a 500 MWe nuclear energy facility at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, has achieved first criticality last month. This marks the point where the reactor core began sustaining a controlled fission chain reaction. The technology for this reactor was developed entirely in India. ...
India to Develop Thorium-Based Power Generation Program
With limited domestic uranium ore, but thorium more than sixty percent of the world’s reserves, India hopes to generate energy for the next four hundred years using thorium. But it has yet to generate the first commercial electricity using this locally abundant fuel. 18,000 villages in the country need electricity...
India Appoints Sekhar Basu as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
Dr Sekhar Basu was appointed as Secretary of India's Department of Atomic Energy and chairman of the country's Atomic Energy Commission. Basu, who is director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and chief executive of the Nuclear Recycle Board, takes over from Dr R.K. Sinha who retired in October. DNA...
India to place 14 nuclear energy reactors under IAEA safeguards.
India has taken the first step of identifying 14 of its 22 nuclear reactors for safeguards. At present IAEA safeguards apply to six Indian reactors. The ‘separation’ plan was announced in March 2006 during President George W. Bush's visit to India. Under it, India has to place a total of...