Technical Meeting on Commercial Products and Services of
Research Reactors

28 June–2 July, 2010, IAEA, Vienna

India’s fifth research reactor Dhruva, which became critical on 8 August 1985, is a natural uranium fuelled, heavy water moderated and cooled thermal research reactor with a rated power level of 100 MW and a maximum thermal neutron flux of 1.8×10¹⁴ cm^-2s^-1. The indigenously designed and built reactor is located at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Trombay. The reactor provides facilities for basic and applied research, material testing and production of radioisotopes and training of manpower. The reactor has been well utilized for two-and-a-half decades on continuous operation basis with high availability and an excellent safety record.

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