Hi! First of all, let me correct the author of this write-up! Mr. Kalam was never the "Father of India's nuclear weapons programme". He had been associated with the Integrated Guided Missiles Programme of the country! Incidentally, only three of the 5 missiles sought to be developed under the programme are operational, the remaining two having been shelved! Even Nag, the much-touted annti-tank missile has not performed to the entire satisfaction of the user, i.e. the Indian Army! However, we indians are prone to hypes in practically every field of life and do not take much to go into a hyperbole! coming back to the topic, thorium has all along been there, waiting to be exploited to its potential but other than occasional noise being made, precious little has been done. The lone fast breeder reactor of the country at Kalapakkam,is by and large still in the developmental stage! When will we wake up and WORK to take our rightful place in the international community!
RE:India should seek nuke self-reliance through thorium: Kalam
by sujeesh narayanan areekara on Oct 24, 2007 10:57 AM Permalink
well said mate...like the treatment given to the T20 champions we over do things and neglect things where immediate action is required.We should change this mob mentality.
RE:RE:India should seek nuke self-reliance through thorium: Kalam
by Mahendra Patel on Oct 24, 2007 11:00 AM Permalink
excellant advise
kalam sahab,
apne kalam kar dikhaya, India should excellerate, thorium research, add more money to this project, stup two to three seperate group doing same research, let them compete to complete to come up with final operational design.Put best scientific minds, Material manufacturing facilities, Money. Lets go for it, If it is proven in theory, than this is question of transforming theory to Practice. Why spend Billions on foreign controlled Fuel supply, which can be turned off any time, why not spend equall or more in Thorium research. Makes big sense, I thought there was canadien company wanted to sell this technology to INDIA, I doubt they had done research on this, If they did might as well pick their brain, nothing wrong in that.
