maybe 1 day, page-11

i read this some time ago...

"NEI Nuclear Notes
News and commentary on the commercial nuclear energy industry.
Thursday, August 25, 2005
India Unveils Thorium Reactor
Indian scientists today unveiled a revolutionary design for a thorium breeder reactor (ATBR) that can produce 600 megawatts of electricity for two years with no refueling and practically no control maneuvers:
ATBR is claimed to be far more economical and safer than any power reactor in the world.
Most significantly for India, ATBR does not require natural or enriched uranium which the country is finding difficult to import. It uses thorium -- which India has in plenty -- and only requires plutonium as "seed" to ignite the reactor core initially...."

Not sure how mainstream this development work is or more pie-in-the-sky. Quick googles suggest it's 15 yr away