India’s long-term development strategy sees nuclear expansion. India’s long-term development strategy sees nuclear expansion : Energy & Environment – World Nuclear News. (n.d.). Retrieved January 29, 2023, from https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/India-long-term-development-strategy-sees-nuclear

The article talks about India’s consideration and development of increasing nuclear energy production for its expanding population and its ever growing need to power all the homes that are being built to house millions of families. Furthermore, the country’s leaders have been spying attention to the effects of climate change alongside the issues (the article mentions that India was motivated that the shift towards more nuclear power because by only providing 3% of electricity generation, the country would be saved of 41 million tonnes of CO2)  of dependence on energy from other countries. India’s submitter plan to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change also includes the usage of small modular reactors to further increase the production of nuclear energies. 

It is interesting how countries like India with massive populations are going about providing their people with energy, especially during a time where fossil fuels are becoming less available and more harmful to the environment. However, something that caught my attention was the goals of the years that they wanted nuclear goals to be met. For example, the article mentions how it wants to triple nuclear capacity by 2032, but is that enough time for the impact of reduced carbon emissions to actually make an impact? 

However I do agree and like the fact that the country is concerned with sustainability, because it seems that nuclear will give the country the best option to reduce its impact on the environment as it continues to industrialize and grow its production of goods in the economy.