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BARC recommissions upgraded version of India's oldest research reactor
Banking current affairs magazine The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has recommissioned an upgraded version of .'Apsara', the country's oldest research reactor that was decommissioned almost a decade ago. Banking current affairs magazine Apsara was first made operational On August 4, 1956, becoming Asia's first research reactor at the time. banking and current affairs However, after having been in service for over five decades, the reactor was shut down in 2009 and decommissioned. The upgraded version, like its ancestor, is indigenously made. It uses plate type dispersion fuel elements made of Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) banking and current affairs