India India production high now-little uranium reserves, so making thorium cycle they’re reacctors IEA 15 [Premier] ["Technology Roadmap: Nuclear Energy." IEA Technology Roadmaps (n.d.): n. pag. 2015. Web. 8 Aug. 2016] India has been developing nuclear energy technology since the 1950s, its first reactor began and operations in 1969. nuclear industry has India’s As it is not party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), essentially evolved indigenously, with a longer term objective of developing nuclear power reactors that can operate on the thorium cycle, the country having significant thorium reserves and very little natural uranium reserves. India has a long history of nuclear energy R&D and is currently constructing a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor which could operate on the thorium cycle. India expects to have an estimated 20 GW of nuclear capacity by 2020 and has announced ambitious targets to increase nuclear electricity in the following decades. India the share of It is estimated that could become the third-largest nuclear energy country in the world by 2040. Rapid economic and population growth, combined with increased urbanisation, are expected to fuel strong electricity demand. The need for reliable electricity at competitive costs is the main driver for nuclear base-load energy development Other drivers include enhanced energy security and local pollution concerns. in India.
India India production high now-little uranium reserves, so they’re making thorium cycle reacctors IEA 15 ["Technology Roadmap: Nuclear Energy." IEA Technology Roadmaps (n.d.): n. pag. 2015. Web. 8 Aug. 2016] [Premier] India has been developing nuclear energy technology since the 1950s, and its first reactor began operations in 1969. As it is not party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), India’s nuclear industry has essentially evolved indigenously, with a longer term objective of developing nuclear power reactors that can operate on the thorium cycle, the country having significant thorium reserves and very little natural uranium reserves. India has a long history of nuclear energy R&D and is currently constructing a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor which could operate on the thorium cycle. India expects to have an estimated 20 GW of nuclear capacity by 2020 and has announced ambitious targets to increase the share of nuclear electricity in the following decades. It is estimated that India could become the third-largest nuclear energy country in the world by 2040. Rapid economic and population growth, combined with increased urbanisation, are expected to fuel strong electricity demand. The need for reliable base-load electricity at competitive costs is the main driver for nuclear energy development in India. Other drivers include enhanced energy security and local pollution concerns.