Apsara research reactor
Reactor de investigación Apsara
- Date
- 1956 · confidence high
- Place
- Trombay, Bombay (Mumbai), Maharashtra, India
- Credited to
- Homi J. Bhabha and the Atomic Energy Commission of India
- People
- 👤 Homi J. Bhabha1909–1966
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
1 MW pool-type reactor, the first in Asia, which reached criticality on 4 August 1956. It trained the first generation of Indian nuclear engineers and produced radioisotopes for medicine and industry.
The fuel was supplied by the United Kingdom; the design and construction were Indian.
What it led to
- India's three-stage, thorium-based nuclear programme
- medical and industrial radioisotopes in India
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre