India, July 23 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) is promoting the indigenous thorium-based technologies to ensure long-term energy security, and to achieve self-reliance in the nuclear fuel cycle.
India has limited resources of uranium and vast reserves of thorium. To optimally utilise the limited uranium resources and exploiting the large thorium reserves for achieving long term energy security in a sustainable manner, DAE is pursuing Three Stage Nuclear Power Programme. The programme is based on closed fuel cycle, wherein the spent fuel from one stage is utilised for extracting the fissile material, to be used as fuel in the next stage.
DAE has developed expertise in reactor design, manu...