Bangladesh’s First Nuclear Reactor Sustains a Chain Reaction

“Officials at Bangladesh’s Rooppur plant say a single working reactor could save the country about $1 billion a year in fuel imports. That plan took its biggest step yet on Sunday, when the plant’s first unit achieved criticality at 15:34, sustaining a nuclear chain reaction for the first time in Bangladesh’s history. Criticality does not […] The post Bangladesh’s First Nuclear Reactor Sustains a Chain Reaction appeared first on Human Progress.