India's Nuclear Facilities

Chandipur

Missile test site.

Jaduguda

Uranium mining area.

Indore

Center for Advanced Technology. Development of laser enrichment technology.

Jullundur

Prithvi missile storage facility.

Kalpakkam

Indira Gandhi Atomic Research Center. Site of Fast Breeder Test Reactor and plutonium extraction plants. Also the location of Madras 1 and 2 nuclear power reactions, which can produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.

Kakrapar

Kakrapar 1 and 2 nuclear power reactors are not subject to International Atomic Energy Agency inspection and therefore available to produce weapons-grade plutonium.

Narora

Narora 1 and 2 nuclear power reactors are not subject to International Atomic Energy Agency inspection and therefore available to produce weapons-grade plutonium.

Pokaran

Site of the first Indian nuclear detonation on May 18, 1974. This bomb was exploded 100 meters beneath the surface. Used again during the testing in 1998.

Rattehalli

Pilot-scale uranium enrichment plant.

Tarapur

Large plutonium extraction plant presumed to support nuclear weapons program. Two U.S. supplied electric power reactors under IAEA inspection.

Trombay

Babha Atomic Research Center. The possible site of a weapons program including plutonium production using Dhruva and Cirus research reactors, a plutonium extraction plant and a pilot-scale uranium enrichment plant.