Published on : 22 Sep 2025, 10:58 am Summary
India is set to reform its nuclear laws to attract private and foreign investment, aiming to boost nuclear capacity to 100 GW by 2047.
The government plans to repurpose retiring coal sites for nuclear projects.
It is in talks to amend laws to facilitate private and foreign participation, with a focus on Small Modular Reactors.
India is preparing sweeping reforms to attract private and foreign investment into its nuclear sector, while also considering the repurposing of retiring coal power sites for nuclear projects, as the government eyes a twelvefold scale-up to 100 gigawatts (GW) of capacity by 2047, a senior government official confirmed on September 22, 2025
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