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India’s Big Nuclear Flop: How a Crown Jewel Slipped Away

This is a story not of India's failure at thorium science but an unfinished job — that could have unlocked a goldmine. There ...

70 years of India’s Thorium research, breakthrough comes from US startup, what role did BARC's Anil Kakodkar play at private firm?

After 70 years and billions spent on thorium research, BARC missed the commercial breakthrough. US startup Clean Core ...
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Powering the deep: India's next-gen submarines to get a massive 200 MWe boost

India’s main nuclear research centre, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, is building a new reactor. This reactor is expected to produce 200 MWe (megawatt electric) and will be used in ...

Fifty years ago | BARC isolates and purifies curium-242

Small quantities of curium-242 — the heaviest man-made element prepared and isolated so far in India — have been isolated and purified at the Radio Chemistry Division of the Bhabha Atomic Research ...