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Delegates to an International Conference on Theoretical Physics held in Tokyo heard from Dr. H.J. Bhabha, Chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission, that India could become the first Asian country to break away from reliance on conventional fuels being used up too fast in the rest of the world for long-term reliance to be placed on their continued availability. This belief was stimulated among scientists by Professor H.J. Bhabha's disclosures of India's atomic energy plans. He told the gathering how an atomic facility had already started work in Bombay to convert earth with high monazite content into nuclear fuel. Monazite soils, plentiful in South India, contained nine per cent radio-active uranium which a reactor could transform into usable energy. India had within her own borders enough uranium in her vast monazite deposits, which could be turned into power. The Bombay atomic pile, expected to be used to capitalize latent energy from uranium, was due for completion in three years. From then, experts believed India could march forth progressively making herself independent of coal and oil — of which the world's remaining resources were reckoned to be inadequate to support the demand for a higher standard of living for 350 million Indians.
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