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Nope, Experimental\Novel Nuclear power reactors have a history of taking a long time, The Beloyarsk nuclear reactor (BN-800) started construction in 1983, but didn't see its first startup until 2014, but was mostly shutdown, its first full year of operation was in 2023. The BN-800 is also a Uranium-Plutonium fuel cycle which is far less complex than Thorium. Russia was planning to build a BN-1200 reactor but it was cancelled because breeders are a nightmare to operate. Thorium is a dead end, & pretty much impossible to operate as a Breeder because of the neutron poisons created when U-233 fissiles. The US had its First Commerical Thorium Reactor operation in 1962 (Indian Pt Unit 1), but was shutdown by 1974 as un-economical Another issue is with the Production of U-232 which has a nasty gamma emission & its a neutron poison. The age of nuclear power is nearly over as the world is running out of economically recoverable uranium. Uranium production peaked in 1980 and has been on a decline ever since as the mines deplete.
Geo politics around supply of uranium,sanctions and killing of nuclear scientists is very important to mention India is not part of NSG Few countries does not want india to become a member of NSG
Honestly at this point, in my personal opinion there's no real reason to restrict India from the NSG. The NPT holdup hasn't stopped a lot of other tech transfer so I think it would be an overall benefit to everyone.
@@atomicblender Tech transfer from whom? No country gives nuclear technology just like a statement Even if they transfer technology but the core technology is going to restrict that is what every country operates Russians helps india but they don't give full technology and sharing of knowledge Western countries absolutely no to india in any form of cooperation
@@atomicblenderwe don't want western countries help. Their help will destroy your own house. And BTW US and Canada are asshole countries, especially Canada. We will never forget how USA killed our scientists and allowed China Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation just to keep a mental jihadist country close with Nuclear power for India. Apart from that, now they are cooperating not only because they love us. They want to contend China through India. We are not fools like UK and Canada who will lick ass of USA.
UPDATE: Most critical 2nd stage achieved breakthrough on 16/4/24 in India's 3 stage Thorium tech. 3rd stage capability has already been demonstrated. So first nuclear reactor in the world which can run without uranium has been achieved.
@@kiranp5611 In terms of capability, it's already been demonstrated. For real life application, can't comment on that as lot of ifs and buts. To know more, You can look it up "Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor".
@@pixelforg There are copies of the CIA records which have been declassified now as it has been > 50 years and they are available for public viewing. Have a look for yourself.
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It's mostly correct, when it comes to control only the regions controlled can be yours. Claimed is therefore different colour. Except for arunachal pradesh.. that has no basis for contest
I believe this has been commented already but, don't show something and blur the information. It makes people feel as if they are missing information. If you say "3 step plan" you can show three circles to represent the steps but, you're better off leaving them blank than blurring them. Like I said, when it's blurred people see that information is intended to be there but, obscured from them. If you don't need to convey the information within the circle at that moment leave it blank instead.
Any reason why Kashmir is not shown as part of India? When you are on explaining that, could you also explain why half of Kashmir is part of China? I would really love the legal explanation.
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Bro he is not Indian and hence not bound by Indian parliament resolutions and constitutionalities. Please stop being this rude and don't scold 3rd parties for not taking your side, the point is POK and some areas are beyond line of control literally. People of that part don't operate under Indian laws, it's not the fault of Wikipedia or the guy making this video.
@@Pankaj.6.4 it is the youtuber who is being rude here who hasn't done proper research about India's correct map and post something wrong map of India. If he wants to make a video on India it's basic courtesy to use the correct map of India, nobody has forced him to make videos related to India
In second stage of Indian Nuclear program Fast breeder reactor uses nuclear waste+ plutonium+thorium= electricity +U233( that is thorium) + plutonium This reactor produce 120 % of nuclear fuel then how much it consume to produce electricity. One more thing this reactor use nuclear waste and plutonium to produce energy and convert thorium into U233. This is not like any other fast breeder reactor (FBRs)& fast reactor. It's something different
Fairly obvious question is that because breeding Plutonium from Uranium is 10 times faster than breeding U233 from Thorium 232 then if you have fast breeder reactors producing Pu239, why would you need to use Thorium?
@@JohnSmall314 it's because uranium 233 it is can't be used for weapons. There is only small amount of Uranium in India that is can't even satisfy consumption. India is home of one third of thorium reserves in entire world(Actually the thorium reserves are increasing because the results we already calculated is not fully accurate by conducting another survey we find about the amount of the thorium that is only present in 50 ft in one largest mine in India but the thing is 200 ft you can extract torrent that means that largest mine in thorium in India increases into nearly four times). Plutonium is used to produce nuclear bombs . Plutonium 239 is very highly fissile material. India's plan is not to make more plutonium. India simply want to make energy from thorium . If India use only plutonium to convert thorium India can't produce electricity from that reactor. If India use uranium along with plutonium to convert thorium there is already Uranium is becoming plutonium in that process there will be more energy producing in that process then the normal uranium reactors. In the same process when this reactor producing energy thorium also converted into you to U233. In this process three things is happening in same time 1.Reusing of nuclear waste to produce energy. (India actually planting from beginning that's why India stored all the nuclear waste very carefully). 2. Producing electricity from nuclear energy (in this process the most of the uranium will be converted into plutonium this plutonium will use further in the same step with along with Uranium). 3. Converting thorium into U233 to use electricity in future.
@@JohnSmall314because India is not a part of NSG group (due to USA). We don't have uranium reserves and we have 25% of Thorium reserves. That's why we are developing thorium nuclear reactor.
Whenever I hear project delays in Bharat, i only think of lack of intent in the bureaucrats and fund problems. There are many talented geniuses in india, sadly we are unable to put all the necessary resources together.
Not true in this particular case. It is the nature of the technology itself that is causing the delays here. It is the same in ISRO and DRDO. Both of them also suffer many delays. But when BARC, ISRO, DRDO and CSIR (the four premier R&D agencies of India) get going, they really get going. Over the past several decades of failed or delayed projects, enough experience has been built up to the point that going forward into the future, these four will begin to compete with global R&D efforts and that is when the bureaucratic bottlenecks will rear their ugly head.
There is a one question I want to ask Why India make nuclear bomb in first place ❓ Ans: in 1971 one of the puppet States of USA . Military massacre innocent civilians and impression the elected government and takeover by the military USA support that. In Desember that puppet state attacked India and India retaliate and make that nation into two parts in just 13 days USA try to use nuclear weapons. main point is India have a capacity to make nuclear bomb in just 18 months our nuclear scientist already announced that but our prime minister against the weaponizing of nuclear power but when USA try to use nuclear weapons against India 1972 our prime minister Indira Gandhi give green signal to nuclear weapons . CIA assassinated that nuclear scientist of India in 1966 but our research is already completed and we make nuclear weapon in just two years and tested . USA know that our nuclear program against them. EDIT: Form then CIA start assassinating Indian Nuclear scientist & give money to women to file false sexual assault case against them. In second stage of nuclear program in India,The fast breeder reactor uses plutonium & nuclear waste with thorium and produce plutonium and uranium 233. The plutonium that is produced in fast breeder reactor is more plutonium than the reactor consum& generate electricity and uranium 233.
I'd also expect India figuring out that Pakistan had a bomb program of its own made them make a bomb too. India and Pakistan are in constant cold war style conflict.
Its Thorium reactor extremely complex technology India super close to conclude. India already has Indian and Foreign sourced Nuclear reactor but Thorium reactor is new tech for whole world.
This is not a new technology . In fact, back in 1965 through 1970 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee the scientists successfully created a Thorium Molten Salt Reactor that actually produced power for a number of years but was defunded by then President Nixon who was more interested in keeping the old monopoly of the existing nuclear companies and energy industries in business because TMSR will be much cheaper and safer than the what we have now . China who has thousands of years of Thorium material,has just recently started up a pilot Thorium Molten Salt Reactor using basically the same technology that was developed by the U.S. back in the sixties . We here in the USA are falling back because of the greed of the few who control us . Do the research.
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@@atomicblender nice reason. Your typical western narrative is already set right? Also, Arunachal Pradesh too dude! Tomorrow if China claims entire India what will you show then? Have some logic besides emotions too.
The map you have used is wrong, complete states of Jammu and Kashmir have been erased. Please correct this ASAP. The correct map is at 1.24, maps at 3.28 and 4.06 should be updated.
The map at 4:06 is from Wikipedia and demarcates the disputed areas in accordance with the UN recognized boundaries. I have removed the other two segments.
Nice idea but pie in the sky thorium has the same problems as uranium you have to reprocessed into U233 once bombarded with fast neutrons but using Nak as collant , Nak has the problem of diffusing into other metals making them brittle that's why British and French projects have been closed down. If using Nak then develope a suitable ceramic linings to prevent diffusion occurring. The Indian dream is full of nightmares to come .
Thorium molten salt reactors would be a good way to produce power. Inherently safe, and allowing continuous extraction of products (both waste and useful) during operation.
Just to inform you my friends, India has successfully achieved the 2nd stage breeder reactor. It's done. We are moving to commercialise it and third stage. It's no more pipe dream. Second stage is DONE.
Soviets were the first to officially set the goal of perpetuum mobile nuclear fuel breeding, and russians are still on track, but they never set target date - no ambitious state target budget - no rush (look for the alternative meaning of Russian "распил").
It is not ordinary sand but thorium rich sand. We heard about Indian Scientists working to harness nuclear energy from Thorium rich sands way back in 1968-69 in BHU from Prof. P.K .Jena , who was then in short deputation to Metallurgy Dept.of BHU from BARC. Prof Jena also told us to our question (in 1968-69) that we had a nuclear device with an affirmative smile .
11:35 Its not like we are not having private sectors working on those R&D , In-fact some of our R&D must be from private companies because we spent quite less on R&d as per our GDP .
Just watched your video on busting myths about THORIUM. In one section you said that U233 formed from thorium can be extracted to be used as potential nuclear weapons ( already tested by USA in Operation Teapot-MET). But I have read some articles and seen some videos where it says that U233 also has some U232 which acts as a poison in two ways. 1st U232 has Gamma radiation making its very difficult to handle and it can also lead to Pre-detonation. Also it is very difficult to separate U233 and U232. Although another way to get pure U233(without U232) is to Extract the Practinium Pa233 which forms from beta decay of Thorium in reactor. This extracted Practinium Pa233 can further beta decay outside the reactor to form pure U233. Could you please clarify.
There's a very well known problem with Thorium that people gloss over. The length of time it takes to breed fissile U233 from fertile Th232. It takes roughly 10 times longer than breeding fissile Pu239 from fertile U238 because the intermediate isotope, Protoactinium 233 has a half life roughly 10 times longer than the intermediate isotope in the U to Pu cycle, Neptunium 239. That is the reason why the Indian project to get the country running on Thorium was planned to take 70 years. It was started over 50 years ago and is still in its early stages. We do not have the luxury of time to switch over to using Thorium for nuclear power, we have to switch to other forms of non-fossil fuel energy production.
The problem is not with intention technology or Engineering the problem is with the political leadership of India which don't have the balls to give it a green light...Even the current leadership was hesitant till now, I don't know the inside politics but about one thing I am pretty sure the current Indian government is aware that their Paris climate agreement ambitions are not going to fulfill before deadline by solar energy but with Cleaner Nuclear Energy...
I hope our govt makes atleast 20 more such reactors across the country including renewable sources already making it energy exporter in the world after satisfying indias growing demands.
Onething you have not said in this video is that. India got Independence from the British after 300 years in 1947 August 15th and our scientist started work on the most ambitious Nuclear project in 1954. Really funny in the end when you said it is tied with UK on the leader board....maybe not so slow afterall.
3:31 woh! Wdf?? Want the video to get banned in India? How about you do some basic research and use your common sense before insult a nation of billion people? 💩 💩
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Going for fast spectrum breeder reactors seems to be an unforced error wherever it’s been tried. I’m not saying it can’t work, but it’s obviously harder than trying to make a thermal Thorium-Uranium breeder.
Actually India just commissioned its first commerical Thorium reactor, couple of months ago.. India is only the second country in the world to have this tech... India will be operationalizing many more PFBR reactors using this template as a part of the 2nd stage of its 3 stage program.
Unlike the comments, as an Indian I don't have a complain about a foreign youtuber using wrong version of map according to Indian government. As a foreigner you balanced it pretty well. Unlike other youtubers you showed things as disputed and current ceasefire lines, not directly part of any country. I like this approach. And as an Indian I think our government needs to do more than just claim things to make the world understand our demands. Till then this map is the most acceptable one among others.
Wish to see the completion of this reactor finally. China has two versions of 4th generation nuclear reactor in operation. One of them is the thorium nuclear reactor in Wuwei city of Gansu province.
Fuel loading operation already initiated for PFBR on March 2024. I wish the reactor achieve criticality by year end. There is an Indian American whose company recently patented HALEU concoction using Uranium and Thorium that can be used in existing PHWRs available in India.
00:01 India's nuclear development is stuck in perpetual delays 01:42 India aims to become a nuclear energy leader. 05:11 Heavy water reactors in India produce both electricity and plutonium efficiently. 06:52 Breeder reactors produce more fuel than they consume. 08:27 India's journey to develop a fast breeder reactor is complex and challenging. 10:03 India's long-term plan to power nuclear reactors with thorium 11:39 India's nuclear energy production is below average. 13:13 India's nuclear energy potential with thorium Crafted by Merlin AI.00:01 India's nuclear development is stuck in perpetual delays 01:42 India aims to become a nuclear energy leader. 05:11 Heavy water reactors in India produce both electricity and plutonium efficiently. 06:52 Breeder reactors produce more fuel than they consume. 08:27 India's journey to develop a fast breeder reactor is complex and challenging. 10:03 India's long-term plan to power nuclear reactors with thorium 11:39 India's nuclear energy production is below average. 13:13 India's nuclear energy potential with thorium Crafted by Merlin AI.
Damn this is one of the most comprehensive videos I've seen on the Indian nuclear program. Thank you for making this! You've just earned yourself a new subscriber :)
This channel is not Indian and hence not bound by Indian parliament resolutions and constitutionalities. Please stop being this rude and don't scold 3rd parties for not taking your side, the point is POK and some areas are beyond line of control literally. People of that part don't operate under Indian laws, it's not the fault of Wikipedia or the guy making this video. PS ... Please forgive my emotional batch of Indians who are triggered by the map.
India needs to now step up and build itself. Not just what the world has but what we can have according to our needs and in the best interest of the world. We have one of the worlds best if not the best culture that has its uniqueness to progress. If India has its own ears and eyes for its culture we may be very much less depended on the world.
Every person in India knows that, how the bureaucracy works. It is the chief reason behind, for not funding or allotting, sufficient funds for any project, which relates to Research & developments, in India. Nowhere else in the world, is it possible to progress any project, without funding? That is why, every project in India is not progressing, to which also, administrative in-charges for those projects are, near to 99.99% is/are bureaucracy only. Never tell that Indian Scientists or Engineers or Technocrats are not working or inferior, to anyone. Thank you.
When it comes to the NUCLEAR⚛️☢️ POWER, one must need to be patient, thoughtful, alert, conscious & wise enough to find creative ways to solve any particular issue. 👉 I'm well aware that Indians are good at maths, infrastructure, engineering, science & computers that's why I'm pretty much sure that they'll gonna turn an almost impossible task into a possible one.
Canada always have an upper hand in nuclear energy industry supplies. Nuclear industry isn't fail-proof and India not having major accident shows they know how to operate such plants. Nuclear waste can be detrimental to the environment. I wonder where the nuclear waste is dispensed.
Gaining the achievement is something to be proud of, but being a leader (for 1,000 years) for a technologies other nations are about to be beyond soon (fussion/fision) is nothing to be really proud of.
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India has unlimited access to uranium now with the advent of economically extracted unlimited Uranium from seawater. This makes the complex/expensive India plan totally unnecessary for India. India needs to reevaluate their plan & great simplify it!
Indian 3-stage plan also takes care of most radioactive nuclear waste that your plan seems to not take care of. Only thing that will make India stop this plan is Fusion becoming competitive.
Now I am curious if you could actually do your breeding in a CANDU style reactor. Say, make your fuel rods out of Thorium and continually move them into the center of the reactor as they get converted to Uranium-233. Not sure if it would be as efficient, but in my eyes, the less handling and reprocessing, the better.
Yes, A CANDU reactor can be used to produce U233 from thorium, and also can run as a breeder reactor once the thorium is seeded with U233, U235 (bomb grade) or Pu239. India has the Pu239. I don't understand why they have not been running their heavy water reactors on thorium. Nor can I understand why they did not build light water reactors with thorium breeding fuel cycles. The USA perfected the breeder thoriium core for PWRs in the 1960s when they thought that thorium was a realistic possibility for our nuclear power plant futures (and the USA actually built 4 commercial thorium cycle nuclear power plants in the 1960's - 1970's).
@@perryallan3524 thanks, I figured. I'm a pro nuclear Canadian, CANDU is a point of pride to me with all of its design advantages. I knew a US nuclear company was working on thorium fuel rod designs, just wasn't fully certain on the breeder aspect.
Yep, CANDU has been shown to work with thorium to breed fuel. Actually, it's already very efficient with U-238 converting to plutonium. India is also working on an advanced HWR that's intended to work with about 40% thorium (sort of a parallel path if the PFBR takes too long).
Awesome I have heard a lot of stuff about thorium reactors since my school chemistry teacher first told us .. But it’s been 14 years since and I thought we would already be operating at least one 😮 Can’t fathom the delays of a lifetime these projects have
Let's wait for another 3/4years in this matter some thing great will come out of it then we will have to reverse the fuel production process in which how to use U233 with U238 for next type of fuel generation to speed up the nuclear power production in India and world as a market leader for a common nuclear fuel for Thorium as well as Uranium 238reactors
Stupid approach. If the used Molten Salt Reactor approach the thorium is directly converted into plutonium during the burning process which is directly burned. The fuel and thorium and R233 is used to start the process. Thorcon and Copenhagen Atomics will manufacture their simpler design in the next 5 years.
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How about Polands Plans?
Nope, Experimental\Novel Nuclear power reactors have a history of taking a long time, The Beloyarsk nuclear reactor (BN-800) started construction in 1983, but didn't see its first startup until 2014, but was mostly shutdown, its first full year of operation was in 2023. The BN-800 is also a Uranium-Plutonium fuel cycle which is far less complex than Thorium. Russia was planning to build a BN-1200 reactor but it was cancelled because breeders are a nightmare to operate.
Thorium is a dead end, & pretty much impossible to operate as a Breeder because of the neutron poisons created when U-233 fissiles. The US had its First Commerical Thorium Reactor operation in 1962 (Indian Pt Unit 1), but was shutdown by 1974 as un-economical Another issue is with the Production of U-232 which has a nasty gamma emission & its a neutron poison.
The age of nuclear power is nearly over as the world is running out of economically recoverable uranium. Uranium production peaked in 1980 and has been on a decline ever since as the mines deplete.
Already India completed 2 stage
I see my critical comment of why Thorium is a dead end got deleted. Gotta hide the truth from the people!
Use full map of India
Godspeed India. Kudos from Poland.
Lots of love to poland 😊❤
Dislike due to wrong Map
Poland my favorite nation only because not allowing radicals there❤❤
What is Godspeed ?
We did it my polish cousins.
Geo politics around supply of uranium,sanctions and killing of nuclear scientists is very important to mention
India is not part of NSG
Few countries does not want india to become a member of NSG
Honestly at this point, in my personal opinion there's no real reason to restrict India from the NSG. The NPT holdup hasn't stopped a lot of other tech transfer so I think it would be an overall benefit to everyone.
@@atomicblender Tech transfer from whom?
No country gives nuclear technology just like a statement
Even if they transfer technology but the core technology is going to restrict that is what every country operates
Russians helps india but they don't give full technology and sharing of knowledge
Western countries absolutely no to india in any form of cooperation
By not being part of the NPT, India gets the same uranium access as Iran or North Korea.
@@atomicblenderUS and CIA killed our many nuclear scientists 😢😢
@@atomicblenderwe don't want western countries help. Their help will destroy your own house. And BTW US and Canada are asshole countries, especially Canada. We will never forget how USA killed our scientists and allowed China Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation just to keep a mental jihadist country close with Nuclear power for India. Apart from that, now they are cooperating not only because they love us. They want to contend China through India. We are not fools like UK and Canada who will lick ass of USA.
UPDATE: Most critical 2nd stage achieved breakthrough on 16/4/24 in India's 3 stage Thorium tech. 3rd stage capability has already been demonstrated. So first nuclear reactor in the world which can run without uranium has been achieved.
Hell Yeah
Where did you get it ? And genuinely how far are we to really setting up a proper functioning reactor which can generate electricity
@@kiranp5611 In terms of capability, it's already been demonstrated.
For real life application, can't comment on that as lot of ifs and buts.
To know more, You can look it up "Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor".
@@kiranp5611 it will take another 4 or 5 years for final testing second stage is recently achieved
hell yeah
The major reason our nuclear program was delayed because of assaniation of our nuclear scientist.
by CIA
One of the guys that claimed that CIA assassinated him was also a holocaust denier, that tells you all about this conspiracy theory 😂
@@pixelforg There are copies of the CIA records which have been declassified now as it has been > 50 years and they are available for public viewing. Have a look for yourself.
Yeah they openly talk about it how they killed others countries nuclear scientist @@vasanththeboss9766
@@pixelforgso you are talking about if his other thing is wrong so his current thing is also wrong are you American patriot or 2cent army 🪖
3:28 the map of india is very wrong please change it - you have litrally cut of kashmir fully ?? 😥
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@@atomicblender Will be glad if you show the correct map. Also Glad you addressed this quickly , unlike many other pesky youtubers.
@@atomicblender Wikipedia cannot be used as an authentic source, pls refer to the govt websites - happy to help in that regard!
Very sad that u used wrong Map.
Not good.
it was not cut fully
its marked as disputed territory for non indian countries
it happens to other countries too like Ukraine and Russia
3:28 , this is not the map of my country Bharat!!!, correct it!!!!!!
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It's India ....😅
It's mostly correct, when it comes to control only the regions controlled can be yours. Claimed is therefore different colour. Except for arunachal pradesh.. that has no basis for contest
And its not bharath its India
@@abi3751 in construction it is said as Bharat that is India, that's why
Homibhabha is known for breeder reactors, just i remembered.🇮🇳🇮🇳
I believe this has been commented already but, don't show something and blur the information. It makes people feel as if they are missing information.
If you say "3 step plan" you can show three circles to represent the steps but, you're better off leaving them blank than blurring them. Like I said, when it's blurred people see that information is intended to be there but, obscured from them. If you don't need to convey the information within the circle at that moment leave it blank instead.
Step 1, collect underwear.
Thanks and good point! I'll do that the next time so it looks better
Any reason why Kashmir is not shown as part of India? When you are on explaining that, could you also explain why half of Kashmir is part of China? I would really love the legal explanation.
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@@atomicblender no worries my friend.
Bro he is not Indian and hence not bound by Indian parliament resolutions and constitutionalities. Please stop being this rude and don't scold 3rd parties for not taking your side, the point is POK and some areas are beyond line of control literally. People of that part don't operate under Indian laws, it's not the fault of Wikipedia or the guy making this video.
@@Pankaj.6.4 it is the youtuber who is being rude here who hasn't done proper research about India's correct map and post something wrong map of India. If he wants to make a video on India it's basic courtesy to use the correct map of India, nobody has forced him to make videos related to India
@@Pankaj.6.4but his videos are being watched here in India..
So ,he should show correct map..
India's first nuclear reactor came from the US in 1954 from the atoms for peace program.
Yes, and they used it to make a bomb
@@jonathangratus233 Those bombs are indeed for peace. India didn't use them on any country unlike the US.
That was a research reactor.
Which was lost in Himalayas
@@mariussorohan938because china had already made a bomb and which forced india to make one
In second stage of Indian Nuclear program
Fast breeder reactor uses
nuclear waste+ plutonium+thorium= electricity +U233( that is thorium) + plutonium
This reactor produce 120 % of nuclear fuel then how much it consume to produce electricity. One more thing this reactor use nuclear waste and plutonium to produce energy and convert thorium into U233.
This is not like any other fast breeder reactor (FBRs)& fast reactor. It's something different
Fairly obvious question is that because breeding Plutonium from Uranium is 10 times faster than breeding U233 from Thorium 232 then if you have fast breeder reactors producing Pu239, why would you need to use Thorium?
@@JohnSmall314 it's because uranium 233 it is can't be used for weapons.
There is only small amount of Uranium in India that is can't even satisfy consumption.
India is home of one third of thorium reserves in entire world(Actually the thorium reserves are increasing because the results we already calculated is not fully accurate by conducting another survey we find about the amount of the thorium that is only present in 50 ft in one largest mine in India but the thing is 200 ft you can extract torrent that means that largest mine in thorium in India increases into nearly four times).
Plutonium is used to produce nuclear bombs . Plutonium 239 is very highly fissile material.
India's plan is not to make more plutonium. India simply want to make energy from thorium .
If India use only plutonium to convert thorium India can't produce electricity from that reactor.
If India use uranium along with plutonium to convert thorium there is already Uranium is becoming plutonium in that process there will be more energy producing in that process then the normal uranium reactors.
In the same process when this reactor producing energy thorium also converted into you to U233.
In this process three things is happening in same time
1.Reusing of nuclear waste to produce energy. (India actually planting from beginning that's why India stored all the nuclear waste very carefully).
2. Producing electricity from nuclear energy (in this process the most of the uranium will be converted into plutonium this plutonium will use further in the same step with along with Uranium).
3. Converting thorium into U233 to use electricity in future.
@@JohnSmall314because India is not a part of NSG group (due to USA).
We don't have uranium reserves and we have 25% of Thorium reserves.
That's why we are developing thorium nuclear reactor.
@@JohnSmall314 Our caretaker told me to let others do the research.
Thanks for considering my suggestion Michael. ❤
India is like elephant. It moves slow but when it moves world shakes.
Whenever I hear project delays in Bharat, i only think of lack of intent in the bureaucrats and fund problems. There are many talented geniuses in india, sadly we are unable to put all the necessary resources together.
Not true in this particular case. It is the nature of the technology itself that is causing the delays here. It is the same in ISRO and DRDO. Both of them also suffer many delays. But when BARC, ISRO, DRDO and CSIR (the four premier R&D agencies of India) get going, they really get going. Over the past several decades of failed or delayed projects, enough experience has been built up to the point that going forward into the future, these four will begin to compete with global R&D efforts and that is when the bureaucratic bottlenecks will rear their ugly head.
We have entered the 2nd stage, meaning we have completed the 2nd stage.
indias nuclear project is delay because of assassination of our nuclear scientists
There is a one question I want to ask
Why India make nuclear bomb in first place ❓
Ans: in 1971 one of the puppet States of USA . Military massacre innocent civilians and impression the elected government and takeover by the military USA support that. In Desember that puppet state attacked India and India retaliate and make that nation into two parts in just 13 days USA try to use nuclear weapons.
main point is India have a capacity to make nuclear bomb in just 18 months our nuclear scientist already announced that but our prime minister against the weaponizing of nuclear power but when USA try to use nuclear weapons against India 1972 our prime minister Indira Gandhi give green signal to nuclear weapons . CIA assassinated that nuclear scientist of India in 1966 but our research is already completed and we make nuclear weapon in just two years and tested . USA know that our nuclear program against them.
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Form then CIA start assassinating Indian Nuclear scientist & give money to women to file false sexual assault case against them.
In second stage of nuclear program in India,The fast breeder reactor uses plutonium & nuclear waste with thorium and produce plutonium and uranium 233.
The plutonium that is produced in fast breeder reactor is more plutonium than the reactor consum& generate electricity and uranium 233.
Thanks for letting me know this info brother
I'd also expect India figuring out that Pakistan had a bomb program of its own made them make a bomb too. India and Pakistan are in constant cold war style conflict.
And the fact that the Chongs had nukes of their own.
@@manw3bttcksIndia and Pakistan have actually gone to war 3 times
Its Thorium reactor extremely complex technology India super close to conclude.
India already has Indian and Foreign sourced Nuclear reactor but Thorium reactor is new tech for whole world.
This is not a new technology . In fact, back in 1965 through 1970 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee the scientists successfully created a Thorium Molten Salt Reactor that actually produced power for a number of years but was defunded by then President Nixon who was more interested in keeping the old monopoly of the existing nuclear companies and energy industries in business because TMSR will be much cheaper and safer than the what we have now . China who has thousands of years of Thorium material,has just recently started up a pilot Thorium Molten Salt Reactor using basically the same technology that was developed by the U.S. back in the sixties . We here in the USA are falling back because of the greed of the few who control us . Do the research.
Its official. India has achieved this milestone now.
Good video but you need to show the Indian map properly, with Kashmir.
Thank you for raising the concern. Unfortunately it is not possible to edit the video after upload. I have removed the mentioned segments and left only the map from Wikipedia.
@@atomicblender nice reason. Your typical western narrative is already set right? Also, Arunachal Pradesh too dude! Tomorrow if China claims entire India what will you show then? Have some logic besides emotions too.
@@atomicblenderplease do proper research before using country maps, we have lost so many of our soldiers defending those lines. 🇮🇳
@@bhushan2kstop crying jeet
@@Neo-11 atta mila kya?
As a Indian I wish we have more Thorium Reactors day by day 🙏🏻💯☢️.
Finally Unlimited source of energy for us with abundant amount of Thorium ✅
Not unlimited...just some centuries
@@JoyP09 even 5 centuries of energy will give us some time to locate and develop alternative sources of energy.
@@kishaloyb.7937 This I agree with
Actually it's somewhat unlimited because a breeder reactor occur by cycle of converting uranium to thorium and vice versa @@JoyP09
@@JoyP09Well 1 century is more than enough to become a superpower
Great video.
Love from India🇮🇳
4:30 Th 232 -> U 233 would be more accurate, the final fuel the thorium is converted to is U233 and not U238
Oops. I just added the same comment. I should have looked further into the comments. 🙂
CANDU heavy water reactors can run on thorium.
Where is it situated?
@@rahulk1203 Canada
@@rahulk1203 in punjab
USA after killing Indians major nuclear scientist:- 00:01
India started fuel loading in fast breeder reactor (not the prototype one) in March 24.
Just a heads up indian has successfully achieved its stage 2 on nuclear energy plan. Please have a video on it
The map you have used is wrong, complete states of Jammu and Kashmir have been erased. Please correct this ASAP. The correct map is at 1.24, maps at 3.28 and 4.06 should be updated.
The map at 4:06 is from Wikipedia and demarcates the disputed areas in accordance with the UN recognized boundaries. I have removed the other two segments.
Thanks. Appreciate your quick reply.
@@atomicblender UN was not even born 5K years ago, Kashmir is been our part of civilisation since then.
@@penguin_88not here
Nice idea but pie in the sky thorium has the same problems as uranium you have to reprocessed into U233 once bombarded with fast neutrons but using Nak as collant , Nak has the problem of diffusing into other metals making them brittle that's why British and French projects have been closed down. If using Nak then develope a suitable ceramic linings to prevent diffusion occurring. The Indian dream is full of nightmares to come .
Thorium molten salt reactors would be a good way to produce power. Inherently safe, and allowing continuous extraction of products (both waste and useful) during operation.
No correct map= No views.
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Me too. Gave a dislike for the incorrect map.
@@therealist7327💯
Agree💯
Same here,rather one dislike too
Just to inform you my friends, India has successfully achieved the 2nd stage breeder reactor. It's done. We are moving to commercialise it and third stage. It's no more pipe dream. Second stage is DONE.
Soviets were the first to officially set the goal of perpetuum mobile nuclear fuel breeding, and russians are still on track, but they never set target date - no ambitious state target budget - no rush (look for the alternative meaning of Russian "распил").
It is not ordinary sand but thorium rich sand. We heard about Indian Scientists working to harness nuclear energy from Thorium rich sands way back in 1968-69 in BHU from Prof. P.K .Jena , who was then in short deputation to Metallurgy Dept.of BHU from BARC. Prof Jena also told us to our question (in 1968-69) that we had a nuclear device with an affirmative smile .
Update - second stage (fast breeder reactor is now complete ) 🥳🥳
now we are going to work on final stage
us blindly killing indian nuclear scientist from 60s to early 2000s
also us in 2024:- 0:01
11:35 Its not like we are not having private sectors working on those R&D , In-fact some of our R&D must be from private companies because we spent quite less on R&d as per our GDP .
Seeing India like this pays more indulgences and more praises to Lord Shiva. HAR HAR MAHADEV!
Really like your video
much excited for it's completion
India must innovate as they are already 5 or 4th largest economy
India successfully tested 2nd stage of thorium breeder reactor.
Please update you video
Love from india ❤😊
Just watched your video on busting myths about THORIUM. In one section you said that U233 formed from thorium can be extracted to be used as potential nuclear weapons ( already tested by USA in Operation Teapot-MET). But I have read some articles and seen some videos where it says that U233 also has some U232 which acts as a poison in two ways. 1st U232 has Gamma radiation making its very difficult to handle and it can also lead to Pre-detonation. Also it is very difficult to separate U233 and U232.
Although another way to get pure U233(without U232) is to Extract the Practinium Pa233 which forms from beta decay of Thorium in reactor. This extracted Practinium Pa233 can further beta decay outside the reactor to form pure U233.
Could you please clarify.
Pro tip dont reply every comment regarding other issues some people will always be unhappy
The most complex stage 2, successfully completed👍
When ???? Sir
@@AdityaKumar-tuvrsv March 2023
mistake at 4:09. slide shows Th-232 -> U-238. Confused me at first. Should be Th-232 -> U-233. It was correct later on in vid.
There's a very well known problem with Thorium that people gloss over. The length of time it takes to breed fissile U233 from fertile Th232. It takes roughly 10 times longer than breeding fissile Pu239 from fertile U238 because the intermediate isotope, Protoactinium 233 has a half life roughly 10 times longer than the intermediate isotope in the U to Pu cycle, Neptunium 239.
That is the reason why the Indian project to get the country running on Thorium was planned to take 70 years. It was started over 50 years ago and is still in its early stages.
We do not have the luxury of time to switch over to using Thorium for nuclear power, we have to switch to other forms of non-fossil fuel energy production.
can u explain it in details plzz
3:53 bro this wrong what if we cut the important part of your nation???
I♥️INDIA
Awesome information..
thankyou ❤
The problem is not with intention technology or Engineering the problem is with the political leadership of India which don't have the balls to give it a green light...Even the current leadership was hesitant till now, I don't know the inside politics but about one thing I am pretty sure the current Indian government is aware that their Paris climate agreement ambitions are not going to fulfill before deadline by solar energy but with Cleaner Nuclear Energy...
I hope our govt makes atleast 20 more such reactors across the country including renewable sources already making it energy exporter in the world after satisfying indias growing demands.
Great video mate, very well researched and awesome production quality for a relatively small channel..I am subbed now
Much appreciated! Thank you so so much and I'm glad you enjoyed
Onething you have not said in this video is that. India got Independence from the British after 300 years in 1947 August 15th and our scientist started work on the most ambitious Nuclear project in 1954. Really funny in the end when you said it is tied with UK on the leader board....maybe not so slow afterall.
Disliked due to wrong map
Same
3:31 woh! Wdf?? Want the video to get banned in India? How about you do some basic research and use your common sense before insult a nation of billion people? 💩 💩
Thank you for raising the concern. Unfortunately it is not possible to edit the video after upload. I have removed the mentioned segments and left only the map from Wikipedia.
India has own reactor tech scientists building small size modular nuclear reactors for industrial use, so this picture is coming to change
Going for fast spectrum breeder reactors seems to be an unforced error wherever it’s been tried. I’m not saying it can’t work, but it’s obviously harder than trying to make a thermal Thorium-Uranium breeder.
Now our news channels wont broadcast stuff like this
Second stage already completed, just the final stage left now
Actually India just commissioned its first commerical Thorium reactor, couple of months ago.. India is only the second country in the world to have this tech... India will be operationalizing many more PFBR reactors using this template as a part of the 2nd stage of its 3 stage program.
Thanks for featuring India 🇮🇳
Jai Shri Ram, we'll manage it no worries 🙏
March 5,2024 india successful achieved all the goals of stage 2 of nuclear program ✌🏻
AT 4:08 it says to convert Th232 into U238, that should be U233
Ii hope breathtaking advancements in wind solar and batteru technologies doesnt make all this redundant
Bruh potiential in nuclear in much more , we just all trying to learn the secrets of the universe
Nuclear is still needed for other things 😏.
Why do you make the everything in the bubbles and the leaderboard illegible like that?
Unlike the comments, as an Indian I don't have a complain about a foreign youtuber using wrong version of map according to Indian government. As a foreigner you balanced it pretty well. Unlike other youtubers you showed things as disputed and current ceasefire lines, not directly part of any country. I like this approach. And as an Indian I think our government needs to do more than just claim things to make the world understand our demands. Till then this map is the most acceptable one among others.
Wish to see the completion of this reactor finally.
China has two versions of 4th generation nuclear reactor in operation. One of them is the thorium nuclear reactor in Wuwei city of Gansu province.
Fuel loading operation already initiated for PFBR on March 2024. I wish the reactor achieve criticality by year end. There is an Indian American whose company recently patented HALEU concoction using Uranium and Thorium that can be used in existing PHWRs available in India.
00:01 India's nuclear development is stuck in perpetual delays
01:42 India aims to become a nuclear energy leader.
05:11 Heavy water reactors in India produce both electricity and plutonium efficiently.
06:52 Breeder reactors produce more fuel than they consume.
08:27 India's journey to develop a fast breeder reactor is complex and challenging.
10:03 India's long-term plan to power nuclear reactors with thorium
11:39 India's nuclear energy production is below average.
13:13 India's nuclear energy potential with thorium
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01:42 India aims to become a nuclear energy leader.
05:11 Heavy water reactors in India produce both electricity and plutonium efficiently.
06:52 Breeder reactors produce more fuel than they consume.
08:27 India's journey to develop a fast breeder reactor is complex and challenging.
10:03 India's long-term plan to power nuclear reactors with thorium
11:39 India's nuclear energy production is below average.
13:13 India's nuclear energy potential with thorium
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Thanks for information...
Damn this is one of the most comprehensive videos I've seen on the Indian nuclear program. Thank you for making this! You've just earned yourself a new subscriber :)
This channel is not Indian and hence not bound by Indian parliament resolutions and constitutionalities. Please stop being this rude and don't scold 3rd parties for not taking your side, the point is POK and some areas are beyond line of control literally. People of that part don't operate under Indian laws, it's not the fault of Wikipedia or the guy making this video.
PS ... Please forgive my emotional batch of Indians who are triggered by the map.
India needs to now step up and build itself. Not just what the world has but what we can have according to our needs and in the best interest of the world. We have one of the worlds best if not the best culture that has its uniqueness to progress. If India has its own ears and eyes for its culture we may be very much less depended on the world.
Sorry for any comments regarding map from India. Hope you will understand.
Every person in India knows that, how the bureaucracy works.
It is the chief reason behind, for not funding or allotting, sufficient funds for any project, which relates to Research & developments, in India.
Nowhere else in the world, is it possible to progress any project, without funding?
That is why, every project in India is not progressing, to which also, administrative in-charges for those projects are, near to 99.99% is/are bureaucracy only.
Never tell that Indian Scientists or Engineers or Technocrats are not working or inferior, to anyone. Thank you.
Hasn’t China started on the Thorium reactor path also? Aren’t they close to start up?
Only possible if BJP (less freebies giving party) stays in power ❤
nice video thankyou from India
Finanly we are doing something cutting edge on our own
When it comes to the NUCLEAR⚛️☢️ POWER, one must need to be patient, thoughtful, alert, conscious & wise enough to find creative ways to solve any particular issue.
👉 I'm well aware that Indians are good at maths, infrastructure, engineering, science & computers that's why I'm pretty much sure that they'll gonna turn an almost impossible task into a possible one.
Canada always have an upper hand in nuclear energy industry supplies. Nuclear industry isn't fail-proof and India not having major accident shows they know how to operate such plants. Nuclear waste can be detrimental to the environment. I wonder where the nuclear waste is dispensed.
Gaining the achievement is something to be proud of, but being a leader (for 1,000 years) for a technologies other nations are about to be beyond soon (fussion/fision) is nothing to be really proud of.
The NGOs that are at the centre of the latest action haven't been named, but they are believed to be those associated with Bishop Yvon Ambroise , the Tuticorin church leader, who has been active in mobilising popular support for the protests at Kudankulam.29 Feb 2012
India has unlimited access to uranium now with the advent of economically extracted unlimited Uranium from seawater. This makes the complex/expensive India plan totally unnecessary for India. India needs to reevaluate their plan & great simplify it!
Indian 3-stage plan also takes care of most radioactive nuclear waste that your plan seems to not take care of. Only thing that will make India stop this plan is Fusion becoming competitive.
What about all the Nuclear waste from that that seawater Uranium?! 💁♂️🤔
Now I am curious if you could actually do your breeding in a CANDU style reactor. Say, make your fuel rods out of Thorium and continually move them into the center of the reactor as they get converted to Uranium-233. Not sure if it would be as efficient, but in my eyes, the less handling and reprocessing, the better.
Yes, A CANDU reactor can be used to produce U233 from thorium, and also can run as a breeder reactor once the thorium is seeded with U233, U235 (bomb grade) or Pu239. India has the Pu239.
I don't understand why they have not been running their heavy water reactors on thorium.
Nor can I understand why they did not build light water reactors with thorium breeding fuel cycles. The USA perfected the breeder thoriium core for PWRs in the 1960s when they thought that thorium was a realistic possibility for our nuclear power plant futures (and the USA actually built 4 commercial thorium cycle nuclear power plants in the 1960's - 1970's).
@@perryallan3524 thanks, I figured. I'm a pro nuclear Canadian, CANDU is a point of pride to me with all of its design advantages. I knew a US nuclear company was working on thorium fuel rod designs, just wasn't fully certain on the breeder aspect.
Yep, CANDU has been shown to work with thorium to breed fuel. Actually, it's already very efficient with U-238 converting to plutonium. India is also working on an advanced HWR that's intended to work with about 40% thorium (sort of a parallel path if the PFBR takes too long).
Science is like harrypotter magic in this universe, the only thing is it require more maths & geometry lol
Awesome I have heard a lot of stuff about thorium reactors since my school chemistry teacher first told us ..
But it’s been 14 years since and I thought we would already be operating at least one 😮
Can’t fathom the delays of a lifetime these projects have
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After today news , I request you to make another updated video and give us an estimated time to finish this Project...
Let's wait for another 3/4years in this matter some thing great will come out of it then we will have to reverse the fuel production process in which how to use U233 with U238 for next type of fuel generation to speed up the nuclear power production in India and world as a market leader for a common nuclear fuel for Thorium as well as Uranium 238reactors
This is newtechnology india has built normal water cooled reactors on time and cheaper than wedt
Nice 🎉I believe India have tested Thorium rector successfully & current govt is interested in further expansion 🎉
Thank you so much for your efforts ☺️
Thanks for such an informative video.
our powerplant is finally commisoned under modi rule
Look at the diff use of thorium would of made, but alas it was side lined, like about everything that didn't make the proper coin for maker,owner
The prototype FBR is ready.
Stupid approach. If the used Molten Salt Reactor approach the thorium is directly converted into plutonium during the burning process which is directly burned. The fuel and thorium and R233 is used to start the process. Thorcon and Copenhagen Atomics will manufacture their simpler design in the next 5 years.
Forget the breeder reactors, the Thorium reactors are the only way to go.
LATE is India's fav hobby
lol what are yoiu even talking dude even USA and china is way behind then India in thorium Research
@@sanatanihindu383 what did you eat modified food?
@@dukeopeace7530 I have 400 acers of land in my hometown and we grow Wheat, soyabean, rice, and many types of vegetables in my farmhouse