Seventy Years, Billions Wasted? How India’s Thorium Dream Was Outsmarted By A Foreign Firm
Seventy Years, Billions Wasted? How India’s Thorium Dream Was Outsmarted By A Foreign Firm
After seven decades of research and billions in public funding, the world’s first commercially usable thorium nuclear fuel has emerged, but not from India’s laboratories. Instead, it comes from a foreign private company, forcing uncomfortable questions about how India handled its most ambitious nuclear promise.
After seven decades of research and billions in public funding, the world’s first commercially usable thorium nuclear fuel has emerged, but not from India’s laboratories. Instead, it comes from a foreign private company, forcing uncomfortable questions about how India handled its most ambitious nuclear promise.