IGCAR

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is the second largest R&D centre of the Department of Atomic Energy after BARC. The Centre is engaged in design and development of liquid sodium cooled fast breeder reactors in the country, as a part of the Nuclear Power Programme Stage 2, backed by fuel fabrication and reprocessing. Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR), a prelude to the FBR programme, has been in operation with indigenously developed Uranium-Plutonium carbide fuel. The Centre has R&D activities, encompassing hydraulic studies and reactor engineering studies of reactor components, sodium instrumentation, material development and characterization. The centre has undertaken various strategically important projects to develop mature fast breeder fuel cycle technologies with international standards.