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The primary importance of BARC is as a research centre.

The BARC and the Indian government has consistently maintained that the reactors are used for this purpose only: Apsara ( 1956 ; named by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru when he likened the blue Cerenkov radiation to the beauty of the Apsaras ( Indra's court dancers ), CIRUS ( 1960 ; the " Canada-India Reactor " with assistance from Canada ), the now-defunct ZERLINA ( 1961 ; Zero Energy Reactor for Lattice Investigations and Neutron Assay ), Purnima I ( 1972 ), Purnima II ( 1984 ), Dhruva ( 1985 ), Purnima III ( 1990 ), and Kamini.