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dated September 10, 1957 : India’s uranium reserves

Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, told members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Dublin that atomic energy would undoubtedly become the world’s main source of energy in the future. He said that if the population of the world consumed energy per head at the same rate as the United States did to-day and we allowed for a doubling of the world’s population in the next 100 years, the least we could expect is that the known reserves of fossil fuels would be exhausted in under a century. Assuming that breeding in power reactors would be eventually possible – as seemed likely – India’s known reserves of uranium and thorium were equal in energy value to more than 30 times India’s reserves of coal.

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