Uranium, the critical raw material required for the production of nuclear energy, is very much in the news in India these days. First, India has taken a major initiative to expand nuclear power generation capacity, using uranium. Second, India commanding only over percent of the global uranium resources, is in dire need of this material. In order to carry forward its nuclear power programme, India has signed deals with countries endowed with uranium for its supply. 

Nuclear power is emerging as an option key source of "green energy" for most developing Asian countries, in order to stem the spike in greenhouse gas emission which came along way with the region's economic success, experts who participated recently in a Manila forum said.

The Indo-US civilian nuclear deal inked between New Delhi and the Washington last year, opens door for more American exports to India, an official US report has said.

The State-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has synchronized 220 MW Reactor 3 of Kaiga Atomic Power project (KAPP) to the southern power grid earlier this year. The KAPP-3 will be the seventeenth operating nuclear power station in the country.