This is the first time that the plutonium rich carbide fuel has been reprocessed anywhere in the world.

The indigenously developed unique plutonium rich mixed carbide fuel used in the fast breeder test reactor (FBTR) has performed extremely well, having operated past a burn up of 148,000 megawatt day per tonne (MWd t) without a single fuel pin failure.

Since the cuprates first appeared, a variety of other high temperature superconductors have been discovered one is a simple compound of magnesium and boron, and another involves a mixture of iron and arsenic. Although none of them superconduct at temperatures as high as liquid air, they may ultimately be better materials with which to work.

The coal comes from Colombia, and costs 300 per ton if Antillana had been able to negotiate with United States manufacturer UCAR, from which it would be able to get the world's best carbide graphite electrode, that raw material would be obtained free, because of the contract undertakings UCAR has with its purchasers.