The following day the reactor produced enough power to light the whole building.

We could probably have nuclear reactors operating and producing in a year.

The reactor was now only producing around 5 percent of the minimum initial power level established as safe for the test.

By contrast, a large nuclear reactor can produce 1,100 megawatts of power.

Altogether, its four reactors produce more than 40 percent of the electrical power generated in the country.

And on Nov. 10, the reactor produced rare good news.

Israel claimed the reactor would produce plutonium which could then be used for Iraq's nuclear weapons program already in development.

The new reactors produce plutonium that is far harder to use in making nuclear weapons.

Sixteen nuclear reactors produce about 3% of India's electricity, and seven more are under construction.

The reactor also produces rare isotopes for use in medicine and industry.