Experts who addressed a recent workshop have advocated for exploring an expanding role for civilian nuclear power in India’s clean energy transition and meeting its sustainability targets.
The speakers were participating in the “National Workshop on Advances in Nuclear Energy for Sustainable Environment (NWANESE-2025) held under the auspices of the Pondicherry University’s Department of Green Energy Technology with the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, under UNESCO Chair initiative.
They called for increasing use of nuclear energy domain for energy diversification and fulfilling the nation’s sustainability objectives, particularly in the context of climate change.
Presiding over the inaugural, Pondicherry University Vice-Chancellor P. Prakash Babu underscored the crucial importance of nuclear safety, the need for increasing public awareness, and the vital societal applications of nuclear technologies.
B. M. Jaffar Ali, Dean (i/c), MSGET, highlighted the synergies between nuclear, hydroelectric, solar, and wind power sources to ensure India’s energy security and progress toward decarbonisation.
