India's Nuclear Past and Future with Dr. Anil Kakodkar

Dr. Anil Kakodkar—the former chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission of India, Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
from 1996–2000 and recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second
highest civilian honour —walks us through the evolution of India's
nuclear program. We discuss the early days of the program,
technical choices in reactor design, the task and potential
advantages of developing economies in obtaining high technology
like nuclear, the importance of education, and India's ultimate
goal of developing thorium technology to make use of the country's
natural abundance of the element.