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Jyoti Shukla

Jyoti Shukla

Trainee, India Today Global

BY Jyoti Shukla

Global

India's Nuclear Sector Opens to Foreign Investment After the SHANTI Act

After decades of legislative barriers and a trust deficit rooted in the Tarapur fuel crisis of 1974, India's landmark SHANTI Act has thrown open its nuclear sector to private and foreign players, drawing America's biggest energy companies back to a market worth nearly 300 billion dollars.

Maria Korsnick, President and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute, meeting Union Minister Jitendra Singh in New Delhi on May 18, 2026.