25% Nuclear Energy Necessary for Economic Growth: AEC (India)

Even as the country is targeting to generate 20,000 megawatts (MWe) of nuclear power by 2020, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Anil Kakodkar today cautioned that India’s economic growth would be in jeopardy unless in the next five decades at least 25 per cent of its total electricity was derived from ”nuclear mode.” Delivering the keynote address at the 14th National Symposium on Environment organised by the Osmania University’s Physics Department and BARC’s Human Safety and Environment Group here, Dr Kakodkar said the Department of Atomic Energy’s recent study, covering a ”horizon for the next 50 years,” pointed out a ‘’sizeable deficit” in the energy sector.
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