Main vessel for India’s fast breeder reactor to be lowered mid-November 2009
India’s first indigenously designed breeder reactor – which breeds more material for a nuclear fission reaction than it consumes – is being built by Bhavini at the Kalpakkam nuclear enclave. Lowering of the huge stainless steel main vessel — 12.9 metres in diameter and 12.94 metres in height, weighing 206 tonnes — is considered a …