NuClearly Put - India’s Nuclear Power Journey: - Why has it Grown in Fits and Starts?

We cannot neglect it because it may be used for war… we shall develop it, I hope, in cooperation with the rest of the world and for peaceful purposes.”2 Therefore, the initial focus was to tap the civilian potential of the atom. [...] Though this time, the pace of work on power reactors remained largely unaffected, constraints on further growth of the programme began to be felt in the early years of the new millennium. [...] This challenge, and the desire of the DAE to rapidly enhance nuclear power production through the induction of additional imported, larger capacity power reactors, persuaded the government of the day to explore options for international civilian nuclear cooperation. [...] In fact, at the time that the Act was being debated in India, the verdict for the Bhopal gas leak accident was announced, and the public mood was critical of the inordinate delay in providing 5 Centre for Air Power Studies | @CAPS_India | Centre for Air Power Studies . [...] However, private participation in the construction and operation of nuclear reactors in India has yet to see the light of the day.