Nuclear Power Plants of India

Nuclear Power Plants of India -4

2. Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam.

i. Established – 1971.

ii. KAMINI is a 30 kW World’s first neutron source reactor in Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam (Tamil Nadu).

iii. This reactor uses Uranium-233 as fuel. When Uranium-233 is burnt in Phase 3, we get Uranium-233 as a product in this reaction.

3. Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore.

i. Non-nuclear front line research areas of Lasers, Particle Accelerators & related technologies.

ii. At this organisation, work is being done on Particle Accelerator and LASER.

4. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata.

i Here a 224 cm Cyclotron is established and It provides proton, deuteron, alpha particle and heavy ion beams of various energies to other institutions.

5. Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), Hyderabad.

6. Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership (GCNEP), Bahadurgarh, Haryana.