It has been 10 years since the government accorded in-principle approval for the Tarapur Maharashtra Site (TMS) to locate an Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AWHR) using thorium-based fuel, and it remains in the research and development phase.Must Read: ‘Future powered by thorium’: India has the largest thorium reserve and an impressive nuclear power planAdvertisement Experts have been emphasising that India should expedite work on loading thorium in reactors to ensure energy independence amidst the Middle East conflict. Despite having 25% of the world's thorium reserves and decades of research and development, India has not been able to achieve success in using…