“No, the Indians have been into small thorium reactors for quite a while. It’s a standard product line. It’s their thing.”
Don’t just make things up, please.
In 2010, the American Nuclear Society convened a special committee to look at licensing issues with SMRs in the USA, where dozens of land-based small reactors were built since the 1950s through to the 1980s, proving the safety and security of light water-cooled, gas‐cooled, and metal‐cooled SMR technologies. The committee had considerable involvement from SMR proponents, along with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy laboratories and universities – a total of nearly 50 individuals. The committee's interim report1 includes the following two tables, which highlight some of the differences between the established US reactor fleet and SMRs.http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Power-Reactors/Small-Nuclear-Power-Reactors/#Modular_construction
www.gizmag.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors/20860/
indianexpress.com/tag/nuclear-reactor-technology/
Pardon my over-enthusiasm, TexGator. Definitely on the way. In an excess of nuclear zeal, I was planning on putting a SMR Thorium plant about the size of a deep freeze behind my barn and selling cheap power to the neighbors.