Public opinion on India's nuclear energy expansion is polarized, characterized by a mixture of optimism for technological advancements and concerns over safety, bureaucratic inefficiencies, and environmental issues. While many express pride in Indian scientists and governmental support for nuclear initiatives, skepticism prevails regarding the effectiveness of these efforts in meeting energy demands and ensuring public welfare. The sentiment ranges from pride and hope for progress to frustration about historical inaction and fear of corporate interests overshadowing safety.

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India has had a bit of technological catch up. A few decades ago they would be purchasing everything sufficiently advanced, reactors, military tech, space tech, but they did well at reverse engineering and learning from the services they hired, and their main push has been to develop and design technological independence. They successfully designed and built their own PHWR modelled after Canada’s CANDU tech. Currently they seem to be investing and researching a few advanced and new gen reactor types. Like thorium and breeder reactors. Nothing truly unique, or un thought of, just pushing technologies they think will help achieve energy independence. Trying to design a reactor with a fully domesticated supply chain. It’s exciting but I can’t think of anything they hope to achieve that other nuclear programs aren’t working on, maybe just a difference in how they how to achieve a shared goal.

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India is developing NUCLEAR reactors and plan to develop upto 20GW of energy from NUCLEAR plan by 2032. Currently 21 reactors are under construction. 
Also Kakrapara and Rawatbhatta (&gt;700 MW) is competly designed and constructed by India.

Least-Possession-163

we are people of coal coal is our soul coal is our goal

its just too much hassle to go nuclear and despite what they say ti fk things up

rest i am in full support of nuclear power plants they are our temples

Cheap_trick1412

As far as I understand, couple of holding points:

1. The technology- we have to depend on west currently for the reactor. We are building our own reactors - long build times.

2. The reason we choose to do it ourselves is the liability- western companies were not willing to take liability.

We have 25 plants already in operation.
[Nuclear power](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/power/centre-looking-to-cut-turnaround-time-to-set-up-nuclear-power-plants-by-five-years-13109430.html/amp)

SlowTax1136

It’s not really about logic, it’s about politics and fear. 

Nuclear’s clean, efficient and long-term, yeah….but it’s also expensive up front, slow to build and politically radioactive. One accident, one protest, one “foreign hand” whisper, and the whole thing gets buried in red tape. 

State govts don’t want to deal with the backlash, centre’s obsessed with optics and voters hear “nuclear” and think Chernobyl not climate strategy. 

Add in land acquisition nightmares and how long it takes to see returns, and most politicians would rather slap solar panels on a stadium and call it a win. It’s not that we can’t go nuclear, it’s that no one wants to tank their career pushing it.

SendMeYourDPics

There are many reasons, but one of the reason is protests.

[Protests by local Villagers against installing of Jaitapur Nuclear power plant](https://www.business-standard.com/amp/article/pti-stories/locals-protest-against-jaitapur-nuclear-power-plant-in-maha-118082700969_1.html)

Motor_Werewolf3244

Nuclear power plants are longer investment with big commitment. I guess we are building Nuclear plants but I  because of cost we can't go full in. Maybe in future. Hope it will improve step by step

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We were greatly restricted by sanctions by NSG due to our nuclear tests. But we are on the path. Indo-US Nuclear deal is a watershed moment in this regard.

AffectionateStorm106

Honest question: how confident are you that we can maintain a nuclear plant without going Chernobyl every few weeks? Indian construction has never been very durable. It seems like a building collapses once a week over there. 

Are the nukes going to be safe?

skp_trojan

Our R&amp;D budget is very low compared to other countries. Seeing the current situation of freebies by government,there is no chance even for development or innovation. Next thing I have few scientist in my family, biggest reason they moved is they don't believe they will get right amount of credit for their work here in india. Working with team or people with bureaurcrat mindset or forced innovation won't work here. Generation of tools and tech provided by government is also very laidback.

CleanComfortable2309

Brain drain = low support of development to students, everyone feels like they are on their own, salaries are joke here, no respect, toxicity etc

sachin_root

India has been working in nuclear since Homi J Bhaba days. The brain drain has been continuing since those times and only gotten worse. I don't understand why this time would be different. Cutting edge nuclear tech innovation is still happening outside India, such as module nuclear reactors and commercial fusion.

AundyBaath

what are they doing for Researchers? I tell you what Indians are doing...They are busy worshipping IAS BABUS while ignoring researchers who actually make the country developed. India has a babu focused system. They sit on top top of every department and slow down everything while specialists and researchers are barely surviving. These generalist babus decide the fate of the smartest scientists and researchers. india celebrates 10th marks... then 12th...NEET JEE ...and then they celebrate studying 20 hrs.. for what? to get a seat in some college? All of this because  the education system has failed to provide  opportunities to most students...and now we have ended up with a lottery system instead.

The university from where I did my PhD. alone had 80% of India's total education budget in endowment. And what exactly is the nation doing for researchers? It's easy to speak about something you aren't aware of, but deep down, it's worse. No one wants to return to India except for those blind by patriotism. 

And BTW, all those fancy words you used are already being researched extensively behind the close doors in the US and West. They just don't want to make much noise unless they want to.

BlueShip123

Just wait for the next generation of chat gpt doctors and engineers, it’s gonna be disastrous not just in India but all over the world.

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I'm working in a nuclear physics lab and recently we bought a detector from baltic/russian/ussr probably and when we received our detector it came through indian oil company channel and got accesories of Indian oil as well. Then I understand that indian oil is probably expanding in nuclear somehow now this news makes sense to me.

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IntelligentHoney6929

Where they are even planning to install it??

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