Mumbai, April 7 Experts in the nuclear field on Tuesday hailed India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieving criticality, terming it a crucial step towards achieving energy security, and noted that very few countries have mastered this technology.
They also said that the next step should be to make the technology more "robust" and build more Fast Breeder Reactors.
India's 500 MW PFBR successfully achieved first criticality (start of controlled fission chain reaction) on April 6. According to the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), the technology development and design of PFBR was indigenously done by the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, its R&D Centre.
Anil Kakodkar, former secretary of the DAE, told