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CIRUS

also Canada India Reactor Utility Services

CIRUS was a 40 MW thermal heavy-water research reactor in Mumbai, India, run by BARC. The IAEA Research Reactor Database lists it as being decommissioned, with first criticality on 10 July 1960 and shutdown on 31 December 2010.

Operator
BARC
Type
Research reactor
Approach
Water-cooled
Country
IN
Status
Decommissioned

Design values

What the machine was built to do, as published. Not results, and never ranked.

Design values for CIRUS
ParameterValueUnit StatusSource
Thermal capacity (rated) medium confidence 40 MW MW claimed IAEA Research Reactor Database (RRDB): public reactor list (JSON behind nucleus.iaea.org/rrdb) aggregator