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India’s PFBR attains criticality at last
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed it “a proud moment for India” when on April 6 the 500-MWe, sodium-cooled Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieved initial criticality. This milestone, which comes some 22 years after the continually delayed PFBR project began, marks India’s entrance into the second stage of its three-stage nuclear program, which has the ultimate goal of supporting the country’s nuclear power program with its significant thorium reserves.
Ivor Clifford (Paul Scherrer Institute), Pavel Kral (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), Ladislav Vyskocil (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), Vladislav Pistora (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), Richard Trewin (Framatome), Yuliia Filonova (IPP-CENTRE), Vladislav Filonov (IPP-CENTRE), Lukasz Sokolowski (Kiwa Technical Consulting), Jürgen Hartung (GRS), Szabolcs Szávai (Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research), Andrej Prošek (Jožef Stefan Institute), Jerome Roy (IRSN), Markku Puustinen (LUT Univ.), Maksym Vyshemirskyi (State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety), Richard Bass (Oakridge Consulting Int'l), Paul Williams (Oakridge Consulting Int'l), Takeshi Takeda (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Carlos Cueto-Felgueroso (Tecnatom)
Proceedings | 20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20) | Washington, D.C., August 20-25, 2023 | Pages 5778-5790
