- “Core Loading” has commenced at the Kalpakkam Nuclear Power Plant.
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi witnessed the commencement of “Core Loading” at India’s first indigenous Fast Breeder Reactor (500 MW) at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu.
- The reactor has been fully designed and constructed indigenously with the contribution of more than 200 Indian industries.
- Bhartiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Ltd., (BHAVINI) was approved in 2003 by the government for constructing and operating India’s most advanced nuclear reactor-Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR).
- India’s most advanced nuclear reactor-Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) operation was approved in 2003.
- After the commencement, India will be the only country after Russia to have a commercially operating Fast Breeder Reactor.
- The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor is an advanced third-generation reactor. It produces very little nuclear waste.
- After completion of the core loading, the first approach to criticality will be achieved.
- The growth of the Indian nuclear power programme is to meet the goal of energy security and sustainable development.
