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“The stumbling block is economics, as installing a nuclear plant has to be affordable to sell its power at a competitive rate,” former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Srikumar Banerjee told IANS at the 103rd Indian Science Congress here, about 140 km from Bengaluru.

In spite of hype over the India-US nuclear deal and opening up of the civilian nuclear industry to foreign suppliers, barring two recent agreements on setting up two more units at the Russian-backed Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu and the French-backed Jatipur project in Maharahstra, not much headway has been made over the years.

As setting up nuclear power plants involves not only technology transfer and making components in the country, but also operating them by the state-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), consensus has been eluding stakeholders owing to high cost and liability clause…….http://zeenews.india.com/news/science/make-in-india-for-affordable-nuclear-power-expert_1842048.html