India is advancing its civil nuclear program with its Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam now able to self-sustain a nuclear chain reaction. In other news, nine police officers have been sentenced to death. DW has more.

India has achieved a major milestone in its nuclear energy programme after the country’s advanced atomic reactor, the Fast Breeder Reactor

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the fast breeder reactor milestone a “defining step.”

India is moving closer to unlocking a self-sustaining nuclear fuel cycle now, with progress in fast breeder reactor technology