India News | A Nuclear Open Heart Surgery: How India Revived the World’s Oldest Atomic Reactors

For nearly six decades, two green-hued buildings on India's western coast have quietly produced electricity. They have outlasted geopolitical shocks, technology denial regimes and the wear of time. Today, Tarapur Atomic Power Station Units 1 and 2 are the oldest commercially operating nuclear reactors in the world, with Unit 2 set to restart soon. During a rare visit, NDTV accessed the facility alongside BC Pathak, chairman and managing director of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, to examine how the ageing reactors have been refurbished and brought back into operation, a feat nothing short of an open heart surgery. Watch