Pool-type experimental reactors have had safe and stable operation for the past 50 years. “It can be constructed either inner land or on the coast, making it an especially good fit for northern inland ...

Indigenously constructed, Apsara U is a swimming pool type research reactor that uses plate type dispersion fuel elements made of low enriched uranium. Nine years after Apsara – the country’s first ...

With the pending nuclear renaissance, a series of alternate reactor designs have been emerging based on smaller, modular designs. Although varied in type and state of development, these reactors offer ...

China was planning to use Westinghouse AP1000 and french EPR (Evolutionary Power Reactor) nuclear reactors. China normally completes nuclear reactors in 4-5 years and at a half or a third of the price ...

Nuclear laboratories in Canada have shown interest in exploring the commercialization of small reactor designs. A Request for Expression of Interest (RFEOI) has been issued to understand the market ...

Low-enriched uranium (LEU) nuclear fuel has been delivered to Vietnam's Dalat research reactor, a 500 kWt pool-type reactor of Russian VVR-M design. The unit has been converted from using ...

The National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) of Argentina says the country is aiming to contribute its experience and facilities to collaborate with countries interested in adopting nuclear ...

India’s oldest research reactor 'Apsara', which was shut down permanently in 2009 for repair, was recommissioned with a higher capacity on September 10, 2018 at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay.

The country’s oldest research reactor ‘Apsara’, which was shut down permanently in 2009 for revamp, has been recommissioned with a higher capacity. It was recommissioned after upgradation on September ...