KAMINI

KAMINI (Kalpakkam Mini reactor) is a research reactor at Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research in Kalpakkam, India. Its first criticality was on October 29, 1996. It produces 30Mw of thermal energy at full power.

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Daily Sensitivity Test

KAMINI is light water cooled and moderated, and fueled with uranium-233 metal produced by the irradiation of thorium in other reactors.

KAMINI was the first reactor in the world designed specifically to use uranium-233 fuel. Use of their large thorium reserves to produce nuclear fuel is a key strategy of India's nuclear energy program.

• India: Experimental thorium reactor critical: News report, 1996

• IGCAR Repocessing Group page documents use of reprocessed uranium-233 in KAMINI