Amazing Fact about India. India has the worlds largest Thorium deposits, enough to produce 500GWe of power, every year for 400 years, if you consider only the reserves that can be extracted economically. Monazite powder is the source of worlds most of the thorium. Also, India is the only country in the world to have the know-how of producing the Thorium based reactor. Half the publications on Thorium in the world are from India. India plans to build 60 of these nuclear reactors in the coming 10 years, thereby making the country self-sufficient in its energy needs. In February 2014, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), in Mumbai, India, presented their latest design for a next-generation nuclear reactor that will burn thorium as its fuel ore. Once built, with a target date of 2016, they estimate that the reactor could function without an operator for four months. Aslo thorium based power plants dont require high security measures which significantly lowers the cost of setting up one. There were also plans to implement this in automobile technology, thereby reducing the dependence on oil imports. 8 gm of thorium can power a car for 3 lakh miles. The US automobile giant Cadillac has showcased its Thorium powered concept car which they claim can be refueled once a century. Thorium deposits in India by state: Andhra Pradesh : 35 % Tamil Nadu and Odisha : 15-20 % Kerala and West Bengal : 10-15 % Bihar : 0-5 % Credits: qr.ae/PVVZv
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 10:27:21 +0000