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MUMBAI: The 40 MW CIRUS research reactor located at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) here will be shut down completely by December 2010 as per the Separation Plan under the Indo-US civil nuclear deal reached between Prime Minister Manmohan singh and former US President Bush.
The 49 year old CIRUS which was refurbished in 2005 for carrying out research work and production of medical radioisotopes will be closed down completely by the end of December 2010 and subsequently decommissioned, BARC director Dr Srikumar Banerjee said.
Scientists are currently using the refurbished CIRUS for doing basic research, conducting engineering experiments, testing of equipment besides producing medical radioisotopes, he said.
The Separation Plan (civilian and military ) committed India to shut down the Canadian-supplied 40-MW CIRUS research reactor and shift the French-supplied fuel core of the 1-MW Apsara reactor to a new research facility outside the strategic BARC complex.
Although CIRUS which has been involved in India's strategic programme will be shut down completely and later decommissioned, APSARA is being modified into a 2 MW reactor using indigenous low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel and its new incarnation will become operational by 2012 to back up the indigenous 100 MW research reactor ‘DHRUVA' , Banerjee said.
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