CIRUS reactor
CIRUS (Canada India Reactor Utility Services)
It was modeled on the Canadian Chalk River National Research X-perimental (NRX) reactor.[4] The 40 MW reactor used natural uranium fuel, while using heavy water as a moderator.[5] It is a tank reactor type with a core size of 3.14 m (H) × 2.67 m (D). It first went critical July 10, 1960.[5]
The reactor was not under
CIRUS was shut down in September 1997 for refurbishment and was scheduled to resume operation in 2003. The reactor was brought back into operation two years late in 2005. During refurbishing, a low-temperature vacuum evaporation-based
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