The 40 Mega Watt CIRUS research reactor located at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai will be shut down completely by December 2010 as per the Separation Plan under the Indo-US civil nuclear deal. BARC Director Dr Srikumar Banerjee said in Mumbai that the 49 year old CIRUS which was refurbished in 2005 for carrying out research work and production of medical radioisotopes will be closed down completely by the end of December 2010 and subsequently decommissioned. He also said that scientists are currently using the refurbished CIRUS for doing basic research, conducting engineering experiments, testing of equipment besides producing medical radioisotopes.<br/>