India poised to increase nuclear energy capacity by over 1,000%

Could achieve this faster than solar and wind power energy.

SA Bhardwaj, former director (technical) of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., said that India is at a stage where it can produce 63,000 MW of nuclear energy by 2032 from the present 5,000 MW.

Nuclear energy currently contributes just 3.1% to India’s total electricity generation.

What is holding this back, he said, is the fear factor associated with nuclear energy ever since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

Of NPCIL's 20 operational plants, the possibility of radiation affecting human beings is zero, he said.

"There are enough safety parameters and hence there is no chance of Fukushima Daiichi disaster happening here. Accidents can occur, but we have the capacity to check their effects. If there is any source that can answer country's energy security concerns, then it is nuclear energy.”

He noted that solar and wind power generation could take up to a decade to reach a level of maturity.

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