India · Mumbai · 19.076, 72.877 (approximate location)

Critical Facility for AHWR and PHWR

Critical Facility for AHWR and PHWR, a research reactor (tank) in Mumbai, India, with 100 W of thermal power, operated by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Operating, first critical in 2008.

By thermal power it ranks fifth among the 5 research reactors operating in India. It went critical 52 years after the first research reactor in India, Apsara (1956). It is one of 36 tank-type reactors operating worldwide, spread across 23 countries.

Country

India

City

Mumbai

Type

Tank

Thermal power

100 W

Operator

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

Status

Operating

First criticality

2008

See also: every research reactor in India · How research reactors work