Deepesh Khatri

Computer Science Engineer.
Passionate Photographer.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia.

The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue.

India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive.

The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear.

But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth.

The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale.

India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper.

The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply.

The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too.

When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.

[Deepesh Khatri @DeepeshKhatri8]

@WanderlustWndr Still waiting for my special delivery 💖🎉

[Deepesh Khatri @DeepeshKhatri8]

@WanderlustWndr Gateway to heaven 🎉

[Deepesh Khatri @DeepeshKhatri8]

@madmanweb Same issue, no otp or verification

[তন্ময় l T͞anmoy l @tanmoyofc]

🔴 SHOCKING! Brave Boy Butchered for Defending Girls!

This is India after 2014: Harassment, R@pe, Murder – and Now, Slaughtering Heroes Who Dare to Stand Up!

📍In Vidisha, #MadhyaPradesh, A 22-year-old was Brutally Killed for calling out eve-teasers harassing Girls.
A Good Soul Gone, Society Rotting Faster!
CCTV Caught the Savagery.

11 years of Decline – When Will The Nightmare End?

#ModiMustResign #KashmirRising #SupremeCourt #UmarKhalid

[Anurag Dwary @Anurag_Dwary]

देश के सबसे साफ शहर में गंदा पानी पीने से 10 से ज्यादा लोगों की मौत हो चुकी है जिस शख्स पर लोगों को साफ पानी पिलाने का जिम्मा है वो सवा���ों को फोकट बता रहे हैं हमारे सवालों को "घंटे" में उड़ा रहे हैं @manishdekoder @GargiRawat @Abhinav_Pan @sanket

[खुरपेंची स्वास्थ्य @Khurpenchhealth]

हार्ट अटैक आने पर सबसे पहले क्या करें ??

नोट - इस वीडियो को ध्यान से देखे आपकी अवेयरनेस किसी ���ी जान बचा सकती है।

[Sachin Gupta @Sachingupta]

"सर, कुछ समय पहले 6 लोगों ने बुरी तरह से मेरा रेप किया। 4 लोग जेल गए, 2 फरार हैं"

मेरठ रेंज DIG कलानिधि नैथानी को अपना दर्द बताने वाली गैंगरेप पीड़िता है, जिसे आज इंस्पेक्टर पंकज राय की टीम ने हरसंभव रोकने का प्रयास किया, ताकि वो DIG से न मिल सके।

#UttarPradesh

[Tarun @tarunmallappa]

This is for those few living outside the bubble that is India.

- This couple perhaps earn 450/ day.
- Are among a vast 40% of India's population living in abject poverty.
- Don't be fooled by the richness you see from the 10% of population.

We still have a long way to go.

[Deepesh Khatri @DeepeshKhatri8]

@snskritinaruka Why it is always twitter that acts as a saviour and also to check if meta/snap servers are down 😹😹

[Deepesh Khatri @DeepeshKhatri8]

@GabbbarSingh Wait ketto is not genuine? @GabbbarSingh

[Jay Shah @JayShah]

🏏🏟️ Big Shoutout to the Unsung Heroes of Cricket! 🙌

The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) are proud to announce a well-deserved prize money of USD 50,000 for the dedicated curators and groundsmen at Colombo and Kandy. 🏆

Their unwavering commitment and hard work made the Asia Cup 2023 an unforgettable spectacle. From pitch perfection to lush outfields, they ensured the stage was set for thrilling cricket action. 🏏

This recognition highlights the critical role these individuals play in cricket's success. Let's celebrate and honour their yeoman services! 🎉👏 #UnsungHeroes #AsiaCup2023 @ACCMedia1 @OfficialSLC

[Nothing @nothing]

Phone (2).

An icon, evolved. Purposefully designed from the inside out to deliver a premium experience you can count on. With new ways to interact with a smartphone to allow you to feel more present when it matters most.

Come to the bright side.

[Nothing @nothing]

Get. Ready.

Nothing Drops marks the very first locations in the world where you can buy Phone (2) and Ear (2) black in person. With limited exclusive perks available on the day. Starts 13 July.

But be quick. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.

[Deepesh Khatri @DeepeshKhatri8]

@dominos_india worst customer service support, raised an issue on Domino's app for an order but no one gave any resolution

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

This photograph 💔

(This was after the SC overturned the death sentence to 3 men convicted of raping and killing this man’s daughter in 2012)

[Harsh Makadia @MakadiaHarsh]

8 Google Chrome extensions that will save you hundreds of hours of your work ( all free ) :

[DK @DineshKarthik]

Lovely pictures @BCCI

Couldn’t be happier for CHANDU sir . Amazing

- Understanding personality traits

- Preparing them accordingly

- Using them tactically to win championships 🏆

ALEX FERGUSON of RANJI trophy

#GOAT

[The New Indian Express @NewIndianXpress]

@ramashankar68 14-year-old Parvez Ahmad Hajam from #Kashmir travels 3 km every day to go to school on one foot, he lost his left leg when he was one year old due to severe burn injuries.
https://t.co/Ym7Bi5QQTG