₹5,850 crore (equivalent to ₹220 billion or US$2.69 billion in 2023)[4]
Owner(s)
BHAVINI
Operator(s)
BHAVINI
Nuclear power station
Reactor type
Fast breeder
Cooling source
Sodium
Power generation
Nameplate capacity
500 MW
[edit on Wikidata]
The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is a 500 MWe sodium-cooled, fast breeder reactor that is being constructed at Kokkilamedu, near Kalpakkam, in Tamil Nadu state, India.[5] The Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is responsible for the design of this reactor and BHEL is providing technology and equipment for construction of the reactor.[6] The facility builds on the decades of experience gained from operating the lower power Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR). At first, the reactor's construction was supposed to be completed in September 2010, but there were several delays. The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor is scheduled to be put into service in December 2024, which is more than 20 years after construction began and 14 years after the original commissioning date, as of December 2023. The project's cost has doubled from ₹3,500 crore to ₹7,700 crore due to the multiple delays. The construction was completed on 4th March 2024 with commencement of core loading of the reactor hence paving the way for the eventual full utilization of India’s abundant thorium reserves.[7][8]
^ abCite error: The named reference ls2021 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Baldev Raj, S.C. Chetal and P. Chellapandi (8 January 2010). "Great expectations". Nuclear Engineering International.
^"BHEL achieves breakthrough in the Nuclear Power segment; Wins order for new rating, indigenously-developed 700 MWe Nuclear Sets based on Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors | Official Website of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, New Delhi, India". www.bhel.com. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
^"PM witnesses the historic "Commencement of Core Loading" at India's first indigenous Fast Breeder Reactor (500 MWe) at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
^"How India's beaches can unlock a nuclear-powered future". www.downtoearth.org.in. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
and 16 Related for: Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor information
A breederreactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. These reactors can be fueled with more-commonly available...
5623504°N 80.1645415°E / 12.5623504; 80.1645415 The FastBreeder Test Reactor (FBTR) is a breederreactor located at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India. The Indira...
milestone in Indian breederreactor technology. Using that experience, the PrototypeFastBreederReactor, a 500 MWe Sodium cooled fastreactor is being built...
also home to India's first large scale fastbreederreactor of 500 MWe called the PrototypeFastBreederReactor operated by BHAVINI and will also be the...
development of civil fastbreederreactors, and the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE), a military submarine reactor testing facility. Both...
reactor, or LMR is a type of nuclear reactor where the primary coolant is a liquid metal. Liquid metal cooled reactors were first adapted for breeder...
the Power Reactor and the Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation, the Government concern that ran the country's prototypefast-breederreactor. Officials...
reactor, starred in 1996, uses Uranium 233 fuel transformed from Thorium in the FBTR. PrototypeFastBreederReactor, a 500MWe fastbreederreactor using...
Sodium-Cooled FastReactor is its closest surviving fastbreederreactor design. Other countries have also designed and operated fastreactors. S-PRISM (from...
Department of Atomic Energy. Once the first fast breederreactor, called PrototypeFastBreederReactor goes into commercial power production, BHAVINI will...
work on induced radioactivity. On October 5, 1966, Fermi 1, a prototypefastbreederreactor, suffered a partial fuel meltdown, although no radioactive material...
site was started in the 1970s with the creation of the Phénix prototypefastbreederreactor, which was operational until 2009, and is nowadays an important...
brought online. The design of the country's first fastbreeder, called PrototypeFastBreederReactor (PFBR), was done by Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic...
Experimental BreederReactor-II (EBR-II) was a sodium-cooled fastreactor designed, built and operated by Argonne National Laboratory at the National Reactor Testing...
project was intended as a prototype and demonstration for building a class of such reactors, called Liquid Metal FastBreederReactors (LMFBR), in the United...
Global Information