Refer to >>>> http://www.india-defence.com/reports-3390
>> BARC's FTBR is claimed to be the first design that truly exploits the concept of 'breeding' in a reactor that uses thorium. The handful of fast breeder reactors (FBRs) in the world today - including the one India is building in Kalpakkam near Chennai - use plutonium as fuel.
These breeders have to wait until enough plutonium is accumulated through reprocessing of spent fuel discharged by thermal power reactors that run on uranium.
Herein lies the rub.
India does not have sufficient uranium to build enough thermal reactors to produce the plutonium needed for more FBRs of the Kalpakkam type. The India-US civilian nuclear deal was expected to enable India import uranium and reprocess spent fuel to recover plutonium for its FBRs. But this deal has hit a roadblock.""
Now tell me How do you propose India to go all alone in FBR technology. Who will give Uranium to India to generate enough plutonium so that FBR can function.
I am no nuclear scientist, so either I fail to understand or you are writing something without any serious study of the topic and nor you have gone through this thread, completely
