India, Jan. 30 -- PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, on Thursday said India's decision to open up the nuclear energy sector for private participation is expected to scale up nuclear capacity significantly by 2047 and provide firm and zero-carbon baseload power.

Mishra was addressing the inaugural Session of the International Conference on 'Sustainable Energy Transition - Global Perspective' at IRADe. "India has undertaken a historic reform by opening nuclear energy to private participation through recent legislative initiatives. This is expected to scale nuclear capacity significantly by 2047 and provide firm, zero-carbon baseload power," he said. Mishra noted that these measures align energy transition directly with e...