Maharashtra on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Russia's state-owned company ROSATOM for development of a Small Modular Reactor based on thorium fuel.

The Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) will initially use the Uranium-Plutonium Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel. The Uranium-238 "blanket" surrounding the fuel core will undergo nuclear transmutation to produce ...

Given that India has multiple times more thorium than uranium, fast breeder reactors (FBR) appeared to offer a solution for our problems. Bhabha, optimistically, predicted that the country would ...

Maharashtra on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Russia's state-owned company ROSATOM for the development of a Small Modular Reactor based on thorium fuel. This is perhaps for the first ...

The panel urged the DAE to "accelerate Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) deployment, with the 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) expected to attain first criticality by March 2026 and ...

What is the advantage of the fast breeder reactor (FBR) programme in India? Three-stage nuclear programs and FBR are very important for the government to become self-sufficient in energy production ...