<p class="title">The country's oldest research reactor 'Apsara', which was shut down permanently in 2009 for revamp, has been recommissioned with a higher capacity.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was recommissioned after upgradation on September 10, BARC said in a statement Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The reactor came into existence in August 1956 and was utilised for various experiments including neutron activation analysis, radiation damage studies, forensic research, neutron radiography, and shielding experiments.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Nearly 62 years after Apsara came into existence, a swimming pool type research reactor 'Apsara-upgraded' of higher capacity was commissioned. The reactor made indigenously uses plate type dispersion fuel elements made of low enriched uranium," BARC said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The upgraded reactor will increase indigenous production of radio-isotopes for medical application, it added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"By virtue of higher neutron flux, this reactor will increase production of radio-isotopes for medical application by about 50 per cent and would also be extensively used for research in nuclear physics, material science and radiation shielding," the release said.</p>
<p class="title">The country's oldest research reactor 'Apsara', which was shut down permanently in 2009 for revamp, has been recommissioned with a higher capacity.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was recommissioned after upgradation on September 10, BARC said in a statement Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The reactor came into existence in August 1956 and was utilised for various experiments including neutron activation analysis, radiation damage studies, forensic research, neutron radiography, and shielding experiments.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Nearly 62 years after Apsara came into existence, a swimming pool type research reactor 'Apsara-upgraded' of higher capacity was commissioned. The reactor made indigenously uses plate type dispersion fuel elements made of low enriched uranium," BARC said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The upgraded reactor will increase indigenous production of radio-isotopes for medical application, it added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"By virtue of higher neutron flux, this reactor will increase production of radio-isotopes for medical application by about 50 per cent and would also be extensively used for research in nuclear physics, material science and radiation shielding," the release said.</p>