India’s Nuclear Power Crossroads: Project SHANTI

India’s Nuclear Power Crossroads: Project SHANTI

For most of independent India’s history, nuclear power has occupied a singular place in the country’s development story. Neither fully commercial nor merely technological, nuclear energy was treated as a sovereign capability—bound tightly to national security, scientific self-reliance, and strategic autonomy. Power generation was only one of its objectives. Control mattered as much as capacity. […]

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