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To meet its rapidly growing energy demand, some opine that India should pursue research and development on thorium as the future fuel of nuclear energy. In this context, what advantage does thorium hold over uranium?
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• Thorium is ~3–4x more abundant than uranium; per-unit mass energy yield is higher in breeder/LFTR designs.
• Thorium fuel cycle produces less long-lived transuranic waste (plutonium) with radioactivity decaying in centuries, not millennia.
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