India · Kalpakkam · 12.558, 80.175

KAMINI

KAMINI, a research reactor (other) in Kalpakkam, India, with 30 kW of thermal power, operated by Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research. Operating, first critical in 1996.

By thermal power it ranks fourth among the 5 research reactors operating in India. It went critical 40 years after the first research reactor in India, Apsara (1956). Its declared uses include neutron radiography, teaching, training and activation analysis. It has been 30 years since its first criticality.

Country

India

City

Kalpakkam

Type

Other

Thermal power

30 kW

Operator

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

Status

Operating

First criticality

1996

Purpose

Neutron radiography, teaching, training, activation analysis

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