Its Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is expected to be operational by the end of 2025. This announcement underscores India’s commitment to sustainable energy solutions and its ...

India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, introducing the Union Budget for 2025, announced the creation of a new “Nuclear ...

Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR II), prototype to the US Integral Fast Reactor. Unfortunately, fast reactors have the disadvantages of being more expensive than LWRs and the challenges of ...

The Centre’s keenness on increasing the share of nuclear power in India’s energy mix, as evidenced by the Finance Minister mentioning it in two successive Budget speeches, is laudable. However, the ...

TerraPower plans to finish construction in 2028. The reactor uses sodium as a coolant, just like Japan’s Monju prototype fast breeder reactor in Fukui Prefecture, which in 2016 was decided to be ...

MHI has experienced setbacks in developing a fast reactor. The “Monju” prototype fast-breeder reactor, the preliminary stage of a demonstration reactor, encountered a spate of problems ...

In her budget speech. Ms Sitharaman said that the development of at least 100 GW of nuclear energy by 2047 is "essential for ...

India’s Indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor (PFBR) and abundant thorium reserves hold key to India’s future energy security. India’s Kerala state is famous for its languid beauty, ...

It is for these reasons that fast reactors have been under development for decades in several countries, primarily as breeders and, in recent years ... operation and decommissioning of experimental, ...

With help from the fast reactor, spent fuel from the thermal reactors will be reprocessed and reused, with a final waste footprint up to ten times smaller than that of regular nuclear fuel. India is ...

The prototype fast breeder reactor uses MOX fuel, which is a combination of plutonium and uranium oxide. "We will replace some bundles with actual fuel bundles then reactor/unit may become critical.