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Will Durant on India @elonmusk

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia. The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue. India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive. The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear. But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth. The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale. India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper. The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply. The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too. When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.

India has now attained criticality in a commercial, 500MW power producing, fast breeder nuclear reactor. (We had experimental one before, but this is a big commercial one that can produce power.) Criticality means reactor is running by itself without needing to keep re-igniting it. Breeder means it makes more fissile fuel than it uses. Nobody wanted to give India such tech. Because these reactors can create nuclear fissile material. So India created the tech itself in spite of sanctions. Only Russia has this tech (true commerical fast breeder reactor) running. US, UK, France say they have given up on this. China has one prototype based on Russian tech but it is not yet commercial. India has refused to put its Fast Breeder Reactor program under international scrutiny. It is a big, big, no HUGE thing for India's energy independence. But, as usual, most Indians won't know how big as we don't play up our achievements. I was recently amused seeing some posts by Gen-Z advising Indian govt to go for Thorium cycle etc in some condescending tone. Because India has been on it quietly for sometime. And this reactor going critical now and commercial soon means it can sustain itself for infinity. This cuts India's imports of Uranium. And paves the way for Thorium based reactors as well. (Stage 3 of India's nuclear program, we just passed Stage 2 with PM's post). Also, what PM didn't say is, this reactor can help generate some 100+kg of weapons grade Plutonium -with which India can make many warheads and expand nuclear stockpile if it wishes so. But India will never do that, you know, as India is a very peaceful nation promoting world wide nuclear disarmament ;)

Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme. The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality. This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme. A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

New DNA Analysis Suggests That Shroud Of Turin May Have Indian Origins ndtv.com/feature/new-dn…

@Tablesalt13 What a fuking looser ur .. ur whole account is literally based on ragebait, do ur fucking research before u put anything...

Vishal Dadlani for you.

Javed Khanani falls to his death from under construction building thenews.com.pk/latest/169730-…

Aditya Raj Kaul mocked this guy for his speculation and ended up being the consultant for a movie that showed exactly that.

@htTweets @RahulGandhi is this u bhadwe???

FLASH: Rahul Gandhi spoke to US envoy about Hindu terror group, said Hindu terror is bigger threat in India than LeT - WikiLeaks #ht

Sure, 𝗗𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗵𝗮𝗿 𝟮 might be a great film. 𝗕𝗨𝗧 No Bollywood movie gets my support until 𝗣𝘂𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗯 ‘𝟵𝟱 is released in its original uncut version.

@WhiteBredCanuck @TheLaurenChen @LichTamara Canada doesn't produce caucasian, so u r immigrant too.. so shit down

@TheLaurenChen @LichTamara The destruction of the country right there. It’s done. There is no turning back now.

The people responsible for this belong in prison.

@TheLaurenChen This b! Tc# is lying.. here is the real graph

@ThrillaRilla369 Better than mine, working in health care, came legally, -1600 cra owing

My tax return: -$362.78 Someone with 6 kids who hasn't worked all year: $11,385

@mario4thenorth Go make el Salvador better, it's already a shithole , ur fuk! Ng refuge has the audacity to blame legal immigrants... And trying to be smart.. u bald ashol€€

🚨 NEW I arrived in Canada at age 5. I was a refugee. Civil war in El Salvador. My family & I worked hard. We did not suck on government welfare. We became Canadian citizens. And proud of it. Canada is the only country & home I know. I started working here at 11 yrs old. I later built many businesses. And now Liberal trolls want to use that story to come after me. They’re trying to weaponize my childhood, against me. They don’t actually care about refugees. They care about shutting down anyone who challenges them. THAT’S their moral compass. AND GROK JUST KEPT THEM HONEST. 🤣

@mario4thenorth Bro wtf, ur refugee, meanwhile ur blaming indias who came paid tones of school fess so refugee like u can preach us... Get a life bro.. u were on government welfare...

@cricketlover055 @KanwarSierah Lol he gave his opinion at the first place... Not me

@rmakhela @KanwarSierah Nobody is asking to reply here, you can ignore that simple

@5chstereoAI @TuhadaJijaji @KanwarSierah Seems like u like ur daddy's face eh!!!.

@rmakhela @TuhadaJijaji @KanwarSierah LOL

@Foreste896 @pubity Lol porki , don't worry they will figure out...

@pubity Hahaha indian obsession with plane is insane, the don't have that quality but still trying hard

An Air India flight had to turn around 4 hours into their voyage because they accidentally took an aircraft that couldn't legally enter Canada. The people on board spent 7 hours and 54 minutes in the air to land exactly where they started.