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India’s third home-built 700 MWe nuclear reactor achieves criticality

Kumari Sonali

India’s third home-built 700 MWe nuclear reactor achieves criticality:

The nuclear power reactor that achieved criticality is the first of a new series of Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) to be built at Rajasthan Atomic Power Project in Rawatbhata.700 MWe units are the largest indigenous nuclear power reactors built by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited

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