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President Droupadi Murmu has granted assent to the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, passed by Parliament during the Winter Session.
A authorities notification said that the President granted assent to the SHANTI measure connected Saturday (December 20, 2025).
The Bill subsumes each laws dealing with the civilian atomic assemblage and besides opens it up for information by backstage players.
The SHANTI Bill repealed the Atomic Energy Act of 1962 and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010, which had proved to beryllium an impediment successful the maturation of the civilian atomic assemblage successful India.
The instrumentality enables backstage companies and associated ventures to build, own, run and decommission atomic powerfulness plants nether a licence from the government.
It states that mining of uranium and thorium, enrichment, isotopic separation, reprocessing of spent fuel, high-level radioactive discarded absorption and dense h2o accumulation volition stay exclusively with the cardinal authorities oregon government-owned entities.
