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India has the most thorium reserves, according to USGS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occurrence_of_thorium

And they have had the plans and motivation to build domestic reactors for the past two decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%27s_three-stage_nuclear_...

NSG membership keeps getting held up by someone or the other and would provide more energy security for India.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/nuclear-reactor-at-...

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India's Thorium rich sands are being mined and exported. Not many people are aware though. Hope it isn't too late. Scandals have throttled many efforts to grow indigenous techs. The ridiculous ISRO spy case is one such example. Cui bono?

Cui bono indeed. Corruption benefits. I don't think the spy case affected much of anything.

It did affect our Cryogenic initiatives. Nambi Narayanan was the main brain behind it. It was a setback from scientific point of view for ISRO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambi_Narayanan

Looking at the wiki, it seems likely that outside forces might've been involved in the scandal.

Thorium is so common that it would be profitable to mine Thorium at nearly any place on earth.

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