New Delhi, April 7 With India's first indigenous prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu achieving criticality on Monday, experts said the development is a significant boost to the country's three-stage nuclear programme.
Formulated in the 1950s by Dr. Homi Bhabha, the programme aims to make India self-reliant in the nuclear power sector by exploiting the vast thorium reserves found in the monazite sands of the coastal regions of South India.
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