Amid delays in plans for large-scale deployment of Fast Breeder Reactors (FBR) — the vital second stage of India’s three-stage atomic energy programme — one of the country’s top nuclear scientists has said that a solution could lie in the country’s policy makers looking at fuel cycle options instead of reactor options. The delays in FBR deployment is bad news for India’s nuclear programme, given that these reactors envisaged the use of recycled fuel while breeding much more fissile fuel. How India can side-step FBR deployment delays A quick solution to tide over this problem could lie in irradiating thorium…