India’s most advanced reactor has set the country on a path towards potentially cutting its dependence on uranium.

New guidance for private industry plus a new test bed facility are set to speed widespread nuclear energy development in ...

The 500 MW prototype fast-breeder reactor is located at Kalpakkam, about 70 km south of Chennai. (Courtesy: Department of ...

Three trial uranium-plutonium MOX fuel assemblies containing americium-241 and neptunium-237 have completed three fuel ...

While several countries have developed or operated experimental fast reactors, specifically the USA, the UK, France, Japan, Germany and China, most of these programmes are currently shut down ...

India achieved stunning success at the Kalpakkam nuclear plant, which even the US and France failed to. Only Russia has a commercially running Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR). The Kalpakkam FBR will use ...

With this achievement, India moves toward leveraging its vast thorium reserves in the third stage of its nuclear strategy.

As India deregulates the nuclear power sector, NPCIL CMD Bhuwan Chandra Pathak explains how the company will play a “motherly ...

A startup called First American Nuclear, or FANCO, wants to build something the United States has never had: a commercial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock India may have just taken a major step toward reshaping the future of energy, according to Interesting ...

The atomic reactor has achieved criticality, meaning it has become stable and self-sustaining that it can produce enough neutrons to sustain future reactions without external intervention ...

India’s indigenously built 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam has achieved first criticality, marking ...