India's nuclear program is summed up by the Baba Atomic Research Center's motto: “atoms at the service of the nation”. Due to the growing needs of India's growing population of 1.25 billion, the country's primary energy consumption has doubled over the past decade and its economy continues to grow. Dwindling supplies of coal and oil force the government to spend billions of dollars to import fossil fuels, and this mass consumption causes pollution and depletion of the ozone layer. Nuclear energy, in contrast, is competitively priced in the long term, emits no pollutants, avoids the depletion of our natural resources, and is better prepared to address India's future energy needs as a source thousands of times more powerful relatively inefficient fossil fuels. Nuclear energy is reliable and sustainable, unlike solar and wind energy, which depend on weather conditions. Although India lacks uranium ore, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala have large deposits of thorium, which can also be used for nuclear power. Thorium is chemically more stable and safer than uranium – and pr...