India's Fast Breeder Reactor To Start Generation In September

The second 1,000 MW atomic power plant being set up at Kudankulam by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. is also slated to attain criticality (beginning of nuclear fission process for the first time) in June.

NPCIL is hoping to load the real fuel in the reactor in June after removing the dummy fuel bundles from the reactor.

Dummy fuel assemblies, made of lead instead of uranium, are the exact replica of the actual nuclear fuel assemblies, both in dimension and weight.

The NPCIL is setting up two 1,000 MW Russian reactors at Kudankulam in Tirunelveli district, 650 km from Chennai.

The first unit attained criticality, which is the beginning of the fission process, July 2013.

Subsequently it was connected to the southern power grid in October 2013 but the commercial power generation began only December 31, 2014.
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