India Achieves What US, France Couldn’t Sustain

India achieved stunning success at the Kalpakkam nuclear plant, which even the US and France failed to. Only Russia has a commercially running Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR). Kalpakkam's indigenously-built FBR will use India's huge reserves of Thorium to power millions of households, and reduce the country's energy imports. It is not just another reactor attaining criticality. With the development, India gained a capability that even the US, France and Japan failed to sustain. They surrendered. Only Russia currently operates fast breeder reactors at commercial scale. China is still taking baby steps to operationalise the technology at a commercial scale. China does have the small experimental CEFR reactor and the CFR-600 prototype.