Write in short about India's atomic energy programme
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the atomic energy programme in India was launched around the time of independence under the leadership of homi J Bhabha.
The main objectives of the Indian atomic energy programme are to provide safe and reliable electric power for the country's social and economic progress and to be self reliant in all aspect of nucleya technology.
Accordingly our country has adopted a three stage strategy strategy of nuclear power generation the first stage involves the use of natural uranium as a fuel with heavy water as moderator .
India is currently well into the second stage of program and considerable work has also been done on the third the Thorium stage of utilisation.
India is now more than self sufficient in heavy water production and early historic achievement was design and construction of the first nuclear reactor in India was went critical on August 4 1956 .
It used and raised uranium as fuel and water as moderator.
An important milestone in the first two decades of the program was the indigenous design .