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=== India === India has been trying to develop fast breeder reactors for decades but suffered repeated delays.<ref>{{cite web |title=India's First Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor Has a New Deadline. Should We Trust It? β the Wire Science |date=20 August 2020 |url=https://science.thewire.in/economy/energy/prototype-fast-breeder-reactor-dae-bhavini-npcil-liquid-sodium-coolant-purchase-orders/}}</ref> By December 2024 the [[Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor]] is due to be completed and commissioned.<ref>{{cite news |last=Srikanth |title=80% of work on fast breeder reactor at Kalpakkam over |work=The Hindu |location=Kalpakkam |date=27 November 2011 |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/80-of-work-on-fast-breeder-reactor-at-kalpakkam-over/article2663329.ece |access-date=25 March 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128073219/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article2663329.ece |archive-date=28 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Jaganathan |first=Venkatachari |title=India's new fast-breeder on track, nuclear power from September next |work=Hindustan Times |location=Chennai |date=11 May 2011 |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/chennai/India-s-new-fast-breeder-on-track-nuclear-power-from-September-next/Article1-542155.aspx |url-status=dead |access-date=25 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513232646/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/chennai/India-s-new-fast-breeder-on-track-nuclear-power-from-September-next/Article1-542155.aspx |archive-date=13 May 2013}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=India's first Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor in final stages of commissioning |website=The New Indian Express |date=30 October 2020 |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2020/oct/30/indias-first-prototype-fast-breeder-reactor-in-final-stages-of-commissioning-2217153.html |access-date=2021-09-20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920213133/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2020/oct/30/indias-first-prototype-fast-breeder-reactor-in-final-stages-of-commissioning-2217153.html |archive-date=20 September 2021}}</ref> The program is intended to use fertile thorium-232 to breed fissile uranium-233. India is also pursuing thorium thermal breeder reactor technology. India's focus on thorium is due to the nation's large reserves, though known worldwide reserves of thorium are four times those of uranium. India's Department of Atomic Energy said in 2007 that it would simultaneously construct four more breeder reactors of 500 MWe each including two at [[Kalpakkam]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Home β India Defence |url=http://www.india-defence.com/reports/2854 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124050043/http://www.india-defence.com/reports/2854 |archive-date=24 November 2011}}</ref>{{update inline|date=May 2018}} [[BHAVINI]], an Indian nuclear power company, was established in 2003 to construct, commission, and operate all stage II fast breeder reactors outlined in [[India's three-stage nuclear power programme]]. To advance these plans, the [[FBR-600]] is a pool-type sodium-cooled reactor with a rating of 600 MWe.<ref>Conceptual Design of PFBR Core S.M. Lee, S Govindarajan, R. Indira, T.M. John, P. Mohanakrishnan, R. Shankar Singh, S B. Bhoje Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, India https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/28/014/28014318.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920212757/https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/28/014/28014318.pdf |date=20 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=FBR-600 - India's Next-gen Commercial Fast Breeder Reactor [CFBR] |url=https://www.aame.in/2015/10/fbr-600-india-next-gen-commercial-fast.html |access-date=2021-09-20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920213243/https://www.aame.in/2015/10/fbr-600-india-next-gen-commercial-fast.html |archive-date=20 September 2021}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
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