New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Friday approved a ground-breaking bill seeking to open up the closely guarded civil nuclear power sector for private players that will have to play a larger role as India eyes 100 GW of nuclear power by 2047.

Named Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, the draft legislation might be introduced in the Parliament next week, sources said.

The cabinet decision on opening up the nuclear sector comes 11 months after Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made such an announcement in her budget speech.

For decades the Department of Atomic Energy, several units under the DAE and public sector undertaking Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd dominated India’s nuclear power landscape. There was a legal b

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