A news site of Gujarat reported this news about an RTI activist who got murdered in Gujarat couple of days ago.It reads as..

There seems no end for the Congress-led-UPA to sanction loot of
India’s invaluable natural resources. After providing nation's coal
deposits to private and state-run entities in an irregular and
arbitrary manner instead of publicly auctioning them off to the
highest bidder and resulting in a heavy loss to the country’s
exchequere, now its turn of Thorium.
Thorium is believed as a key factor to India’s nuclear programme
being freed from the dependence on uranium imports to power our
nuclear plants and allowing us to develop limitless amounts of fuel
since it could be extracted from sand on beaches.
But according to recent published report in ‘The Statesman’, the
government has failed to control the export of monazite, the raw
material from which thorium can be extracted, and has allowed
extraction of2.1 million tonnes of monazite.
The report estimates that if the thorium extracted from the
monazite is estimated at $5,000 per tonne (Ref : thorium.tv), then the loss to
the exchequer is approximately Rs 48 lakh crore, in addition to the
incalculable loss to the nuclear fuel programme.
Thorium Disappearing: UPA’s new Coalgate? The
report comments on UPA’s policy on natural resources. It says,
“Since the UPA government assumed office in 2004 with Manmohan
Singh as Prime Minister, 2.1 million tones of monazite, equivalent
to 195,300 tonnes of thorium at 9.3 per cent recovery, has
disappeared from the shores of India.”
‘Thorium disappearing’ should be considered more serious as it is
related with India’s Nuclear programme. Thorium is a clean nuclear
fuel of strategic importance for both nuclear energy generation and
nuclear-tipped missiles. The beaches of Orissa Sand Complex,
Manavalakurichi in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu and the
Aluva-Chavara belt on the Kerala coast have been identified under
the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, as
the main monazite bearing areas in the country.
#Manmohan Singh, Karunanidhi and Radioactive
material...
Does America want to destroy Ram Setu?
Developed Nations encouraging thorium-based
reactors : The US and Japan are actively looking to
increase their production of thorium and thorium-based reactors
says report. That why, India needs to safeguard its mineral
resources by banning the export of minerals from which thorium can
be extracted, in order to safeguard its nuclear fuel programme for
the future.
Thorium is crucial : On 2-December, 2009,
Prithviraj Chouhan, then Minister for Science & Technology and
Earth Science has stated in parliament, “Complete replacement of
uranium by thorium in existing Indian Reactors is not feasible
without a major change in design. However, thorium has been used in
a few bundles of Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors earlier. Large
scale use of thorium is planned in the 3rd stage of the Indian
Nuclear Power Programme.”
Similarly, In July 2012, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman R
K Sinha has stated that, the only problem with Thoriun is
that it can't be used directly as a fuel and it has got its own
limitations too. This is the reason why the AEC is working hard to
develop the next generation reactors that can use thorium as a
fuel. This explains that Thorium is crucial for the Indian nuclear
power programme and Indian government needs to guard its exports
more carefully.
Destroying Ramsetu: Easy approach to Thorium rich
beaches? It is considered that a large chunk of Thorium
would be washed away if Ram Sethu is blasted. And almost all of it
would be lost if another tsunami strikes the region. The
Sethusamudram Canal, if built destroying RamSethu, will be
beneficial to private parties for easy snatching of beach
sand for Thorium available on beaches of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
The social organisations which protested against Sethusamudram
Project said that since India had rich thorium resources and the
technology to use it, the US was pressuring the Centre to speedily
implement the Sethusamudram project (through India-US Nuclear
Deal).
# Coalgate scam: Restore Coal India to commanding
heights
# Dubious Defence of the Prime Minister in Coal
Scam
“We suspect an international conspiracy to prevent India from
becoming a nuclear power as the thorium deposits will meet the
country’s requirement for 400 years,” said a spokesperson of the
Vishva Hindu Parishad which criticized destroying of Ramsetu.
Source: News Bharati
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