From 'www.world-nuclear.org' I can find the following reactors which are in operation, but not one called 'Kamini'. The first on this list was TARAPUR in 1969 (BWR)
Tarapur 1 and 2, Kaiga 1,2 and 3, Kakrapur 1 and 2, Kalpakkam 1 and 2, Narora 1 and 2, Rawatbhata 1,2,3 and 4, Tarapur 3 and 4.
Apart from Tarapur 1 and 2, these are all PHWR type. Total capacity 3779 MWe.
Perhaps Kamini was an experimental or small prototype reactor not in this list?
India's first nuclear reactor is called the Apsara reactor. It was commissioned in August 1956 at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai.
India's first nuclear reactor is situated in the ''Rajasthan, porbandar.''
The original name of a nuclear reactor is an "atomic pile". The term was first used by Enrico Fermi to describe the experimental setup of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in Chicago during the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.
Enrico Fermi's notable inventions include the development of the first nuclear reactor, which demonstrated the feasibility of controlled nuclear chain reactions. He also contributed significantly to the development of the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Fermi's work laid the foundation for the field of nuclear physics and had a lasting impact on science and technology.
This was built as part of the Manhattan Project in WW2, to demonstrate the principle of the chain reaction. The results were used to design the Hanford piles to produce plutonium. The chief scientist for the Chicago pile was Enrico Fermi, first criticality in 1942
The first inventor of a nuclear reactor was Enrico Fermi. Refer to link below.
Enrico Fermi
India's first nuclear reactor is called the Apsara reactor. It was commissioned in August 1956 at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai.
1. Dhruva reactor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhruva_reactor This reactor is a larger version of CIRUS and can produce up to 25 KG of plutonium per year. No statement has been made about shutting down this reactor, presumably India feels it is not obliged to because unlike CIRUS it was designed and built using Indian resources. 2. CIRUS reactor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIRUS_reactor. The CIRUS design is based on Canada's Chalk River reactor and was built with Canadian help. India has announced that this reactor will be shutdown in 2010 in accordance with the terms of the recent US-India nuclear deal. CIRUS can produce up to 10 kg of plutonium in a year. 3. KAMINI reactor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAMINI 4. APSARA reactor http://www.barc.ernet.in/webpages/about/mile.htm
Project Manhatten, the first atomic reactor.
India's first nuclear reactor is situated in the ''Rajasthan, porbandar.''
The very first nuclear reactor was Chicago Pile 1. It was built for research and scientific use. The first nuclear reactor outside of a university was built (at Hanford, Washington) primarily to yield plutonium for the atomic bomb destined for Nagasaki, Japan. Nuclear reactors were built primarily for electrical generation beginning in about 1951.
The original name of a nuclear reactor is an "atomic pile". The term was first used by Enrico Fermi to describe the experimental setup of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in Chicago during the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.
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It can lay claim to the following credits: * The first town powered by an Atomic Reactor. * Site of Idaho National Laboratory. * Site of the first fatal nuclear reactor failure and radioactive spill. * Home of the Craters of the Moon National Monument.
The first sustained nuclear chain reaction was in the CP-1 reactor in Chicago, IL.The X-10 reactor in Oak Ridge, TN was used to develop plutonium production reactor technology.Three reactors at Hanford, WA beginning with B reactor produced the plutonium.