INDIA'S GROWING ENERGY BASKET PROSPECTS OF NUCLEAR POWER

摘要

The energy sector in India has a challenging task ahead. The demand for clean and commercial forms of energy is increasing at a fast pace as a result of accelerated economic growth,growing aspirations of the people, and rapid urbanization. At the same time, in spite of various well intended efforts on part of the government on the reform, policy, and regulatory fronts, matching augmentation of supply has not been taking place.ln the case of power sector, for example, we have been witnessing continuing shortages for many years now. It is also true that over 400 million rural population have no access to clean energy. This situation is no longer sustainable and a multipronged approach focusing on both supply and demand sides is considered necessary in this context. On the supply side we need to exploit all available resources giving due emphasis to all aspects of energy security including fuel availability, environmental and social impacts, pattern of resource availability, operational efficiency and flexibility, cost, etc. In this paper we focus on nuclear power, which can play a key role in meeting the growing energy needs, especially the base load in the medium and long term.