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India’s first indigenously developed Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor
September 23 , 2018
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- India’s first indigenously developed 500-megawatt (MW) Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu is expected to achieve criticality in 2019.
- Criticality is the event of a nuclear reactor reaching self-sustained chain reaction. i.e., no external source of neutrons is required to sustain fission in the reactor core.
- PFBR has been designed indigenously by Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR).
- It generates power by burning mixed uranium-plutonium MOX fuel, a mixture of PuO2 and UO2.
- It is a pool-type reactor with 1,750 tonnes of sodium as coolant.
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