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The authorities is considering amendments to the Atomic Energy Act and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act to propulsion backstage investments into the atomic space, Parliament was informed connected Monday (December 1, 2025).
Noteworthily, India has acceptable up an ambitious people of 100 GW atomic powerfulness capableness by 2047.
Major steps person been taken by the authorities to diversify the country's vigor portfolio done atomic energy, Minister of State (MoS) for Power Shripad Naik said successful a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
A dedicated Nuclear Energy Mission with an allocation of ₹20,000 crore has been launched to make astatine slightest 5 indigenously designed Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) by 2033 and beforehand precocious atomic technologies, helium said.
Mr. Naik said "amendments to the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010 are (also) being taken up to promote backstage assemblage investment." The Atomic Energy Act presently does not let information of the backstage assemblage oregon adjacent State governments successful the atomic projects.
The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act provides punctual compensation to the victims for harm caused by a atomic incidental done a no-fault liability regime.
A Ministry of Power-constituted committee had besides earlier suggested legislative amendments to flooded the challenges facing the 100 GW atomic capableness people by 2047.
It said these measures volition not lone pull backstage concern successful atomic abstraction but besides assistance with faster clearances required to acceptable up specified projects.
