Why India keeps betting on nuclear energy

Security, self-reliance, and an energy transition that doesn’t fit Western narratives

A recent article brief from a pro-progress media outlet (who shall not be named) asked contributors to consider whether it was “sensible” for India to build nuclear reactors in the 1970s. My first reaction was: that question is already doing a lot of work. It smuggles in a number of assumptions about what “responsible” development is supposed to look li…