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India opened the reactor, not the fuel
SHANTI hands the reactor to the market and keeps the used fuel with the State. The draft rules should say what that promise costs and when it begins India is planning the biggest expansion of nuclear power in its history. The target is 100 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2047. Today, the country has about 8.8 GW. Reaching the target would mean increasing the fleet more than elevenfold in little over two decades. To make that possible, Parliament passed the SHANTI Bill, in December 2025.
India protects its neem better than its DNA
Section 2(c) of the Biological Diversity Act protects every living thing in India except Indians. The law that might fix it closes in nine months Your DNA is written in a chemical alphabet of four letters, three billion of them in a row. In one gene that builds the heart, twenty-five of those letters may be missing. The gap is old, passed from parent to child for thousands of years. Four to eight of every hundred people of South Asian origin carry it — perhaps a hundred million of us.
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