Nuclear Power Plants of India

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List of nuclear weapons tests of India :-

1. Smiling Buddha (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the assigned code name of India's first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974. The bomb was detonated on the army base Pokhran Test Range (PTR), in Rajasthan.

2. Pokhran-II consisted of five detonations, the first of which was a fusion bomb while the remaining four were fission bombs. The tests were initiated on 11 May 1998, under the assigned code name "Operation Shakti". National Technology Day is observed on this day.

3. Fission → bigger thing breaks into smaller things and energy is released. Fission reaction is done in all Nuclear Reactors of the World. Fission is easier to do as it needs less temperature than Fusion to take place.

4. Fusion → opposite of fission, smaller things combine to form bigger thing. For example in the Sun, fusion reaction take place (hydrogen atoms combine to form helium and release large amount of energy).

5. There is a project going on in India of Fusion named "SST-1" at Institute of Plasma Research, Ahmedabad.

To End :-

1. India possesses both nuclear weapons and extensive nuclear fuel cycle capabilities. India tested its first nuclear device in May 1974, and remains outside both the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

2. However, India has a facility-specific safeguards agreement in place with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) allowing it to participate in global civilian nuclear technology commerce.