January 15, 2008 (LPAC) -- During the trip of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Beijing, cooperation in civilian nuclear energy was recognized as a key ingredient to economic growth in the region--one third of the world's people. For India, the future well-being of its population hinges on the development of technologies that make use of India's vast reserves of thorium, as an indigenous nuclear fuel.

Because thorium would make India self-sufficient in energy, thorium nuclear development has been a hate object of leading Russelite, Al "Feed em' to the Polar Bears" Gore, and the population-control, non-proliferation mafia, otherwise known as the British Empire. Remember, the Brutish Empire wants to reduce the population and by depriving the Third World nations of advanced technology it has been very successful in creating the type of humanitarian crisis to that effect. Also remember, that the avowed liberal, Lord Bertrand Russell, defined the nuclear apartheid policy which is still in force today.

India has a three-stage program to enable it to end its dependence upon imported enriched uranium, and instead fuel its civilian nuclear reactors with thorium. Although thorium is not fissile (does not fission on its own), it is fertile, meaning, when bombarded by neutrons from plutonium, it transmutes to fissile uranium-233, an excellent nuclear fuel. The lack of an adequate amount of available plutonium has slowed the pace of India's thorium R&D program. During Singh's visit to Beijing, it was suggested by one analyst that China provide India with some of its excess plutonium, for India's thorium program.

Russia also has an active thorium R&D program. With plenty of plutonium available, from power plant spent nuclear fuel, and dismantled nuclear warheads, Russia plans to move from dependence upon relatively rare fissile uranium, to more plentiful natural uranium and thorium as fuel, by the middle of this century. Beginning last summer, in a joint program, Russia's Kurchatov Institute had been testing designs for thorium fuel assemblies, fabricated by Thorium Power, Ltd., in McLean, Virginia.

The roadblock to what should, therefore, be a cooperative India-China-Russia-US thorium development program is the ``Henry Hyde United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act,'' signed into law by President Bush on December 18, 2006. To gain access to U.S. and international nuclear technology and enriched uranium fuel, India is supposed to give up its right to reprocess spent fuel and separate out the plutonium, as a show of support for the nuclear nonproliferation regime. That would cripple India's thorium program, creating another Gorey situation.