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 to start construction of a Thorium-powered nuclear energy reactor prior to 2017
Construction of a thorium fired 300-MWe advanced heavy water reactor (AHWR) will start in "12th plan" period according to Mr. S A Bhardwaj, Technical Director of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, quoted in the Deccan Chronicle yesterday. The first AHWR reactor – with thorium for fuel -- will be...