The 500 MW prototype fast-breeder reactor is located at Kalpakkam, about 70 km south of Chennai. (Courtesy: Department of ...

The initiation of a controlled nuclear fission chain reaction at the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor sees India move into the second stage of a three-stage nuclear programme which ultimately aims to ...

India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality, moving closer to full power generation and ...

With this achievement, the country formally entered the second stage of the three-stage nuclear power programme envisioned by ...

At 8.25 pm on April 6, inside a heavily shielded complex along Tamil Nadu’s coast, a quiet but defining moment unfolded in ...

Criticality management combines pharmaceutical product, process, and material knowledge and risk management in one approach, which is reflected in a single document. At the end of the 1990s, many ...

Managing the risks of complex systems, and increasing systemic robustness, is a challenging task. Systems can fail on multiple levels. While some of these potential failures are straightforward to ...

Quantum criticality, the strange electronic state that may be intimately related to high-temperature superconductivity, is notoriously difficult to study, but the first findings of a 'quantum critical ...

India has brought a long-delayed but strategically important nuclear project to a key operational ...