P.S. I'm not an expert, but this has been in news media in India for a long time. The reason that China and India are the only countries going after fission is

P.S. I'm not an expert, but this has been in news media in India for a long time. The reason that China and India are the only countries going after fission is because of a singular element - Thorium. Both India and China have huge reserves of thorium that can be unlocked with molten salt reactors that are unviable anywhere else in the world (including the US, which gave up on this a long time ago[1]). Australia does have large reserves of thorium, but its projected energy needs are dwarfed by India and China's. China is way ahead than India on this front with more than a billion dollars managed by Jiang Mianheng to conduct research into these new reactors. And which is why India is bending over backwards to sign the India-US Civil Nuclear Energy treaty. Interestingly, a US company, Thorcon [2], has built a "hackable" MSR - though I dont know if it is any good. [1] http://fortune.com/2015/02/02/doe-china-molten-salt-nuclear-reactor/ http://fortune.com/2015/02/02/doe-china-molten-salt-nuclear-... [2] http://fukushimaupdate.com/thorium-molten-salt-reactors-to-go-into-production-by-2020/ http://fukushimaupdate.com/thorium-molten-salt-reactors-to-g...