It seems India is among the pioneers in Breeder reactor technology to utilize Thorium. Hope this deal doesnt harm our oun R&D in anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
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by hiral joshi on Aug 24, 2007 04:08 PM Permalink
One more link to prove India's presence on international Nuclear power generation technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Heavy_Water_Reactor
RE:Hope
by ASHOK on Aug 24, 2007 07:07 PM Permalink
George >> Please understand, Thorium by itself is not Fissile. It needs to be irradiated first, than it becomes useful. First step is to have Uranium and India is hopelessly short on that.
Bottom line >> We do not have all the links to make complete Chain
RE:Hope
by Lalatendu Deo on Aug 24, 2007 08:45 PM Permalink
The Three Stage Reactor Technology is not yet a proved one so as to enable us to fully depend on to produce commercial energy. We only have a small Fast Breeder Reactor that was perhaps inaugurated by Rajeev Gandhi. Had we been having a commercial Reactor based on the Technology, we could have thought of not going for any outside help.
Not much of hope from Thermal and hydel energy to fuel the requirement of energy in the next decade and beyond.
