Kaiga 1 Nuclear Reactor

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Kaiga 1 Nuclear Reactor: On December 31st, 2018, India’s indigenously designed pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR), 220-MW Kaiga 1 nuclear power plant, became a world record holder for running 962 unbroken days. The previous record for continuous operation was held by Heysham-2 Unit 8 in the UK, which ran 940 days before it was taken offline on December 10, 2018.

Green Bioreactors: In February 2019, researchers at Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute used tobacco plants as ‘green bioreactors’ to produce large quantities of a human protein called Interleukin 37, or IL-37. The protein ....

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