Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday will witness the initiation of the core loading of India’s indigenous 500 Mwe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) in the nuclear complex at Kalpakkam, about 70 km south of Chennai.
The initiation of the core loading of PFBR, developed by BHAVINI (Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited), would mark a “historic milestone in India’s nuclear power programme”, a release from the Press Information Bureau said.
The reactor core consists of control sub-assemblies, blanket sub-assemblies and fuel sub-assemblies, and the core loading activity would include the loading of the reactor control sub-assemblies, blanket sub-assemblies and fuel sub-assemblies that would generate power, it said.
