The U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative

摘要

India, the world's sixth largest consumer of energy, has the largest electrical power grid among developing countries and the 14th largest power system in the world. It has a massive and rapidly growing appetite for energy driven by its population of more than a billion people and an economy growing at approximately 8 percent each year. India's society is open and free; it is transparent, stable, and multiethnic. Its government is a multireligious democracy characterized by individual freedom. India is a rising global power that could be a pillar of stability in a rapidly changing Asia.