India’s first home-built prototype fast breeder reactor, the 500-megawatt Kalpakkam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu, which has undergone successful tests, offers a glimpse of how thorium can help power ...

At Kalpakkam, the DAE has multiple facilities ... even though such an occurrence is highly unlikely in a nuclear power plant because of the ‘defence in depth’ philosophy in the design and ...

and a Nuclear Recycle Board. The drill was overseen by the Kalpakkam Emergency Committee headed by M. Seshiah, Station Director MAPS and Site Emergency Director. It involved participation of over ...