Beyond coal & renewables: Can nuclear power be India's clean energy gamechanger?
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(The author is Founder & Head of Institution, Arihant Capital Markets Ltd) The Integrated Energy Policy of India estimates the share of nuclear power in the total primary energy mix to be between 4% and 6.4% in various scenarios by the year 2031–32. A study by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), estimates that the nuclear energy share will be about 8.6% by the year 2032 and 16.6% by the year 2052. Union Budget FY26 has proposed a goal of at least 100 GW of Nuclear Energy by 2047. Nuclear power is the seventh-largest source of electricity in India after coal, solar, wind, hydro, gas and biomass. India is the only developing nation to have indigenously developed, demonstrated and deployed nuclear reactors for electricity generation. Live Events This was made possible through several decades of extensive scientific research and technology development primarily in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limite...