India is not kicking everybodies ass. Indias nuclear industry suffers from the same problems many of their advanced technology developments suffer. India focus

India is not kicking everybodies ass. Indias nuclear industry suffers from the same problems many of their advanced technology developments suffer. India focused on thorium fuel pellets, but what makes a reactor good is using molten salt as fuel and coolant, and India wasted a huge amount of effort redeveloping PWR technology from the 70s. And breeding with static fuels is also far less useful because to separate those out of the fixed fuel pellets is very hard. Those are the exact reason why M. Weinberg started developing liquid fueled reactors. So what we really need to develop is liquid molten salt fueled or at least molten salt cooled reactor. Those can be fast burners, fast breeders or thermal breeders. Thorium is really only useful if you are doing a thermal breeder, if you don't then uranium is actually better.