Aristotalled
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Aristotalled
@Aravind3689
Deny Climate Change Catastrophe because George Carlin said so 😉









India trains the engineer. America files the patents. Gurtej Sandhu was raised in Amritsar and trained at IIT Delhi. He now holds 1,299 US patents at Micron, Edison topped out at 1,093. Sandhu is the 7th most prolific inventor in American history. His titanium nitride deposition work is why every DRAM cell in your phone and every GPU training a foundation model actually holds charge. Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix own 95% of global DRAM. None of them are Indian. We export the inventor. We import the chip.








The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu — the one announced by PM Modi on 6 April 2026 — is outside @iaeaorg IAEA safeguards. Modi’s post confirmed it attained criticality (first sustained chain reaction). This 500 MWe indigenous sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor uses mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel (plutonium-uranium) and breeds more fissile material than it consumes via a uranium blanket, producing extra plutonium (and paving the way for thorium use in Stage 3 of India’s program). India has never placed its fast breeder reactors under IAEA safeguards, consistent with the 2005–2008 civil-military separation plan and the India-specific IAEA safeguards agreement (INFCIRC/754, in force since 2009). This means IAEA has no routine access or verification that material from the PFBR (or its blankets) is not diverted to India’s burgeoning nuclear weapons program. India describes it as fully civil, but experts note it enables unsafeguarded plutonium production (weapon-grade if operated in certain modes) See: fissilematerials.org/blog/2014/07/i… & princeton.edu/~aglaser/2007a… 1/n












