Chennai, March 4 -- Marking a historic milestone in India's nuclear power programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnessed the initiation of core loading of India's 500 MW indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) being built by BHAVINI (Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited) at Kalpakkam, about 70 km from here, on Monday.
Mr Modi arrived in Chennai later reached Kalpakkam by a chopper and visited the PFBR facility.
Official sources said the PFBR reactor core consists of control sub-assemblies, blanket sub-assemblies and fuel sub-assemblies.
The core loading activity consists of loading of reactor control sub-assemblies, followed by the blanket sub-assemblies and the Fuel sub-assemblies which will generate power.
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