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New 700MW nuclear plant in Gujarat, India, begins running at full capacity
(www.power-technology.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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The important bit:
Is that India has limited uranium but lots of thorium...
And their over all strategy to get around that includes "coincidentally" making a shit ton of weapons grade plutonium...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%27s_three-stage_nuclear_power_programme
That plan from decades ago was to make a few of these so they dont burn through their uranium before they have enough plutonium to start using the thorium.
What Modi is doing doesn't make sense for that plan, he's moving to fast and investing too heavily in phase 1.
It only makes sense if he didn't care about long term nuclear power, and just trying to make as much plutonium 239 as possible. Which would be worth an absolute shit ton of you have no ethics on who you sold it too...
And Modi has spent the last couple years openly saying he doesn't give a shit about other countries and is fine doing business with anyone.
India has nuclear bomb doesn't it? The plutonium would be for them I expect. There are more than some nuclear powers around them.
India currently has a plutonium stockpile that would allow them to assemble around 1k plutonium pits for bombs on top of the current hundred or so bombs they have. They're quite flush with the stuff. Pakistan mostly uses high enriched uranium for bombs.