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India has the most thorium reserves, according to USGS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occurrence_of_thorium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occurrence_of_thorium
by ece 9y ago
India has the most thorium reserves, according to USGS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occurrence_of_thorium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occurrence_of_thorium
And they have had the plans and motivation to build domestic reactors for the past two decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%27s_three-stage_nuclear_power_programme#Stage_III_.E2.80.93_Thorium_Based_Reactors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%27s_three-stage_nuclear_...
NSG membership keeps getting held up by someone or the other and would provide more energy security for India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/nuclear-reactor-at-kalpakkam-worlds-envy-indias-pride/articleshow/59407602.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/nuclear-reactor-at-...
- knowThySelfx 9y agoIndia's Thorium rich sands are being mined and exported. Not many people are aware though. Hope it isn't too late. Scandals have throttled many efforts to grow indigenous techs. The ridiculous ISRO spy case is one such example. Cui bono?
- ece 9y agoCui bono indeed. Corruption benefits. I don't think the spy case affected much of anything.
- knowThySelfx 9y agoIt did affect our Cryogenic initiatives. Nambi Narayanan was the main brain behind it. It was a setback from scientific point of view for ISRO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambi_Narayanan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambi_Narayanan Looking at the wiki, it seems likely that outside forces might've been involved in the scandal.
- xorfish 9y agoThorium is so common that it would be profitable to mine Thorium at nearly any place on earth.