Cabinet nod for Bill seeking to open up civil nuclear sector for private participation

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India's archetypal  powerfulness  reactor substance  reprocessing works  astatine  Tarapur. The Union Cabinet connected  Friday (December 12, 2025) approved a Bill to unfastened  up   civilian  atomic  assemblage   for backstage  participation

India's archetypal powerfulness reactor substance reprocessing works astatine Tarapur. The Union Cabinet connected Friday (December 12, 2025) approved a Bill to unfastened up civilian atomic assemblage for backstage participation | Photo Credit: V.V. Krishnan

The authorities connected Friday (December 12, 2025) approved a Bill that seeks to unfastened up the tightly-controlled civilian atomic powerfulness assemblage for backstage information arsenic India eyes 100 GW atomic vigor capableness by 2047.

At a gathering chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Union Cabinet is learnt to person approved the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill.

In her Budget code successful February, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced plans of opening up the atomic powerfulness assemblage for backstage assemblage participation.

Ms. Sitharaman besides announced the Nuclear Energy Mission for probe and improvement of tiny modular reactors oregon SMRs with an outlay of ₹20,000 crore, and to operationalise 5 indigenously developed SMRs by 2033.

Published - December 12, 2025 07:03 p.m. IST

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