Consider the following statements regarding India's Nuclear programme :
1) In the first stage, India is using natural uranium as fuel to pressurised Heavy water Reactors(PHWR).
2) In the Second Stage, plutonium reprocessed from the spent fuel of the PHWRs, depleted uranium and thorium kept in the blanket from will be used as fuel to power a series of breeder reactors, Thorium used in the breeders gets converted into uranium-233, a fissile material.
3) In the third stage, reactors will use thorium and uranium-233 to generate electricity.
4) India's Nuclear Fuel Complex is in Hydrabad.
Which of the above statement is/are true?
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