Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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India has been flourishing a large indigenous nuclear power program and is expecting to have 20,000 MWe nuclear capacities on line reaching 2020. Also, India strives to supply 25% of electricity from nuclear power by 2050. Since India has not signed Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty due to its weapon program, we are excluded from trade in nuclear plant or allied material which may hamper the development of civil nuclear energy since past 34 years. With all these trade bans and lack of indigenous uranium, India has been uniquely developing nuclear fuel cycle to utilize our reserves of thorium. From the year 2008, the use of foreign technology and fuel are expected to accelerate India’s nuclear power plans considerably -
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