Published on May 18, 2013
Here is the gold standard of survey meters. This is the WB Johnson GSM-500 with HP-265 pancake probe. Gamma reading on the Thorium rock jar are 2900 CPM which is about 1.16mR/h of gamma at the glass! The survey meter is autoranging so no manual switching is required to switch ranges.
It is surprising indeed that the DOE should be passing the buck to Customs authorities. DOE should reintroduce the monazite certification which was discontinued on 1 Jan. 2007. There should be a complete ban on exports of all atomic minerals listed under the MINES AND MINERALS. ( DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) ACT, 1957. (No. 67 of 1957). It is ridiculous on the part of DOE to state the importing parts in foreign countries can detect radioactive thorium shipments. It is the responsibility of DOE to ensure that no radioactive product gets out of the country. Will DOE rescind the Dec. 2006 illegal notification issued by the then Addl. Secy VP Raja of DOE? How can a notification be in contravention of the Act No. 67 of 1957?
Kalyanaraman
Cumulative list of blogposts with label 'Thorium' (May 31, 2013):
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2013/05/thorium-reactors-could-soon-power.html Thorium reactors could soon power Indonesia, Chile -- Mark Halper
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2013/05/nuclear-futures-thorium-could-be-silver.html Nuclear futures: thorium could be the silver bullet to solve our energy crisis
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2013/05/ban-export-of-beach-sand-minerals-bjp.html Ban export of beach sand minerals: BJP MP Hansraj Ahir
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2013/05/great-thorium-robbery-ongoing.html Great thorium robbery, ongoing...
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2013/03/great-rare-earths-robbery-in-india.html Great Rare Earths' robbery in India. Fight by a citizens' forum
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2013/01/citizens-petition-for-action-against.html Citizens' petition for action against perpetrators of the Great Rare Earths' Robbery in India
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2013/01/china-moving-to-thorium-as-safe-nuclear.html China moving to thorium as safe nuclear fuel. GOI, protect and use India's thorium reserves for energy needs of Indian Ocean Community.
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2013/01/china-blazes-trail-for-clean-nuclear.html China blazes trail for 'clean' nuclear power from thorium
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2012/12/dae-oct-2012-reply-on-thorium-loot-full.html DAE's Oct. 2012 reply on Thorium loot full of loopholes. DAE is yet to explain how Atomic Minerals list was changed without Parliament approval.
Is safe, green thorium power finally ready for prime time? -- John Hewitt
Thorium, China, Environment , Energy Takashi Kamei (Video 33:47)
Illegal notification of 18 Jan. 2006 on Atomic Minerals and loot of Rs. 96,120 Crores worth Atomic Minerals - Complaints
Govt. of India should act now to stop illegal mining of Atomic Minerals
India announces plan to build thorium reactor. Congrats to India's nuclear scientists.
Illegal mining of Atomic minerals worth Rs. 96,120 crores
Submit views/suggestions on Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill No. 110 of 2011
Cause and effect: a case study in and dossiers on Rare earths/Atomic Minerals of India
DAE, cancel and withdraw an illegal notification issued in January 2006.
Atomic minerals include thorium, uranium, monazite, zircon, ilmenite, rutile and leucoxene (Part B of First Schedule of the Act 1957)
PM should ban placer sands mining, nationalise minerals of national importance consistent with Shah Commission recommendations on manganese/iron ore mining
Our nuclear program will be thorium based - APJ Abdul Kalam
Protection of thorium & other rare earth minerals - Swamy refutes DAE claims
‘Our policy is to reprocess all the fuel put into a nuclear reactor’ -- Sekhar Basu
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2012/10/protection-of-thorium-reserves-in.html
Protection of thorium and rare earth reserves in the country
Cheap nuclear energy is an illusion -- Kumar Chellappan
DAE Press release : Export of Monazite from India. India backtracks on involving private miners in monazite - Ajoy K Das
Thorium loot: No private parties permitted to produce monazite, says DAE
Cheap,abundant & very safe nuclear power.....Thorium
Protection of thorium reserves in the country
Thorium loot spells strategic loss
Kerala Metals and Minerals Ltd causing radiation: PIL
Separation of monazite from placer sands and strategic needs of India's energy programme.
Nuclear Thorium: Country needs thorium-based fast breeders -- Dr. Kalam
Near monopoly position of a company in garnet placer sands
Estimated value of Manavalakurichi placer sands loot in a decade: Rs. 1 lakh crore
Placer sands exports detailed in a Criminal Petition in Hon’ble Supreme Court
Govt. misled Parliament on thorium loot. Thorium a game changer for India's power needs?
Export profiles of placer sands of Manavalakurichi complex
Rare earth complex of India -- containing thorium, the strategic nuclear fuel
India's nuclear energy through thorium. Powering the world.
Thorium could have powered India
Power of Thorium - two books reviewed. 'Super Fuel':Martin. ‘Thorium: energy cheaper than coal’: Robert Hargraves
Thorium UPA's new coalgate?
How far off is thorium energy? It is producing energy already -- in many reactors of India...
India all set to tap thorium resources
India-Canada Nuke pact. "Those days are gone. We're not so stupid," Dr. Chaitanyamoy Ganguly, Nuclear scientist.
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2012/09/thorium-to-transform-nuclear-power-pair.html Thorium to transform nuclear power. A pair of MIT students set up Transatomic Power
Cumulative list of blogposts with label "Thorium" (September 27, 2012). National imperative of protecting Rare earths including thorium.
Thorium -- a nuclear fuel and iPhone are born of Mother Earth. Govt. of India, conserve and protect rare earths including thorium.
Take steps to protect strategic monazite reserves: Subramanian Swamy to PM
Thorium and imperative of national security - Dr. Swamy's letter to PM
Thorium as strategic mineral: a greener alternative to uranium. India should protect her thorium reserves.
DAE makes strides towards thorium fuel supplies for AHWR
‘Thorium figures unconfirmed’ - IREL
VVER: Voda Voda Energo Reactor, Water-cooled, water-moderated energy reactor
Protect India's thorium to transform the world of energy
A future energy giant? India's thorium-based nuclear plans
India should enforce NSG guidelines for protection of thorium
Nuclear Energy’s Future: Thorium
Q&A: Thorium Reactor Designer Ratan Kumar Sinha
Thorium-fuelled dreams for India’s energy future. How India’s science is taking over the world.
Thorium poster (Source: Thorium Australia campaign)
Protect India's thorium. Briefings on nuclear technology in India -- PK Iyengar, Retd. Chairman, AEC, May 2009
New All-Party UK Parliamentary Group on Thorium
China Takes Lead in Race for Clean Nuclear Power -- using thorium.
The issue is India as nuke power. Anti-Kudankulam leaders manipulate innocents - Pioneer Edit
India Ventures Into Rare Earths, To Launch Soon Monazite Processing Plant
Thorium is nuclear fuel and should command immediate attention of GOI to conserve and protect the wealth of the nation.
Thorium key to India’s energy security -- Sandhya Jain
Thorium advocates launch pressure group in UK. India plans nuclear plant powered bythorium - Guardian, UK
Feature article: A Thorium Reactor (American Scientist, 2010)
Thorium As Nuclear Fuel
Thoriumgate. 34 blogposts. Seize the moment to strengthen India's nuclear doctrine and energy future.
Is Thorium the Biggest Energy Breakthrough Since Fire? Possibly.
Are beachfuls of thorium sand a curse? -- Rrishi Raote
Why should foreign companies & private parties work in monazite placer deposits?
Karisastha koil, Kundal, Uvari
Thorium for dummies. Thorium reactors - Dr. Y (Federation of American Scientists)
UPA's Thoriumgate? Toyota Tsusho enters the scene.
Monazite reserves of India 18 Million Tonnes (A review of seabed and placer mining deposits in India by Abhineet Kumar (May, 2011. Dept. of Mining Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, 2011)
Thorium which can breed uranium 233 is the future energy source for India. Rare earth elements; Indian rare earths -- Its genesis and growth (TK Mukherjee, IREL)
Proof that coir was used to export thorium oxide in monazite. Now Toyota is inmonazite processing in India.
Wyoming nuclear task force hears thorium reactor plan
Indian rare earths: genesis and growth -- TK Mukherjee, IREL
Who looted India’s missing thorium? -- Sandeep Balakrishna
After coal, did India give away Thorium at pittance too?
Great thorium robbery impacting India's nuclear doctrine and energy security
67 Years Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Destruction
$15 billion hole in ground. Thorium for clean energy
Thorium Reserve in the Country - Narayanasamy informs Lok Sabha
Thorium-fuelled dreams for India's energy future. How India's science is taking over the world.
Nuclear materials, suppliers group (NSG) and safeguards
Depletion of thorium reserves from South Indian beaches, impacting India's nucleardoctrine and energy security: 14 blogposts
Black Monazite sand deposits found on beaches (India)
Thorium fuel cycle - potential benefits for India - IAEA publication (2005)
Thorium: alleged export of sands (August 2007 report)
Key reserve profiles of placer deposits: Chavara and Manavalakurichi (From Ph.D. thesis of Ajith G. Nair, 2001)
Valmiki's knowledge of oceanography and Mannar volcanic
Mining of monazite (GOI response in Lok Sabha on 30 Nov. 2011)
Indian Rare Earths Limited
VV Mineral: achievements
There’s nuclear gold in this sand. And it’s being sent out with impunity – Tehelka
Manavalakurichi
Scam of the century involving Rs. 1340 billion thorium reserves. Irregularities inbureaucratic processes which led to encouragement of illegal mining of thorium
10-point plan: Nationalise thorium resources of India and institute strategic command for protecting and conserving Nuclear Fuel complexes
Illegal thorium mining in India. Value of India’s thorium reserves: Rs. 1340 billion est.
‘PM must look into illegal thorium mining’
Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke | Magazine