India has a lot of thorium; this is a natural step for them. The reactor itself looks decent technically; they've got experience building and operating similar

India has a lot of thorium; this is a natural step for them. The reactor itself looks decent technically; they've got experience building and operating similar reactors, and it'll produce a lot less waste than the light water reactors that most of the world is using. The 300 MWe size should be easier to finance than the usual gigawatt behemoths. The passive safety features are nice. I'm afraid I can't get too excited about it, but it's a pretty good-looking reactor. The maddening thing, though, is that they haven't been too forthcoming yet on how they're going to keep the costs down. How much will one of these things cost? How long will it take to build? I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it turns out.