Bankingcurrent affairs magazine The Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre has recommissioned an upgraded version of
.'Apsara', the country's oldest research
reactor that was decommissioned almost a decade ago. Banking current affairs magazine Apsara was first made operational On August 4, 1956, becoming Asia's first research reactor at the time. banking and current affairs However, after having been in
service for over five decades, the reactor was shut
down in 2009 and decommissioned. The
upgraded version, like its ancestor, is indigenously made. It uses plate type dispersion fuel elements made of
Low Enriched Uranium (LEU)
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