while India, South Korea, Russia and especially China are building over 60 new nuclear power stations between them. Exciting new technologies are being developed in India, where the world’s first prototype commercial thorium reactor (which uses fission of uranium233, produced from the natural element thorium) has been under construction since 2004. The reactor has suffered from multiple delays and was originally supposed to be finished in 2012, then 2017, but as of June 2019 is planned to enter service in 2020. It can operate for four months without any human control and has been designed to
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