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India’s nuclear moment ishere

India Nuclear Forum brings industry, government, research and capital into one room — so the country’s nuclear ambition becomes a delivery programme, not a projection.

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100 GW

National target by 2047

500+

Member organizations

2,000+

Professionals engaged

50+

Events & briefings

25+

Countries represented

The position

India has decided to build.

The engineering is known, the capital is arriving, the policy has moved.

What is missing is coordination — and that is the work of this Forum. We are not a vendor and we do not represent a single company. That independence is the point: it is what lets us convene honestly and publish without pressure.

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A pressurised heavy water reactor under construction at Kakrapar, Gujarat

Kakrapar — a reactor under construction

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Engineering

Known

Proven designs, an operating fleet, and a construction record to build on.

Capital

Arriving

Private participation is open and the financing structures are forming.

Policy

Moved

The reform package has cleared the path that blocked new entrants.

What we do

Five things the Forum is for

Every programme we run answers to one of these. If it does not, we do not run it.

01

Convene

Bring the ecosystem into one room.

The Forum runs the gatherings where the sector actually makes decisions — an annual flagship, focused technical forums, and closed working groups on the problems that need sustained attention.

  • Annual flagship forum
  • Technical working groups
  • Closed-door roundtables
02

Inform

Publish research practitioners trust.

We produce independent analysis with the people doing the work: supply chain readiness, licensing pathways, market studies and policy briefs — published openly, not sold.

  • Sector research
  • Policy briefings
  • Technical guidance
03

Connect

Introduce capability to opportunity.

Newcomers entering the sector need to find the right counterpart quickly. The Forum makes those introductions deliberately — between buyers and manufacturers, founders and investors, institutions and industry.

  • Structured matchmaking
  • Investor introductions
  • International linkages
04

Advocate

Carry the sector’s view to policy.

We consolidate what members are seeing on the ground and put it in front of policymakers and regulators as evidence — clearly argued, sourced, and free of individual commercial interest.

  • Consultation responses
  • Evidence submissions
  • Regulatory dialogue
05

Develop

Build the workforce the programme needs.

Specialist roles are the binding constraint on deployment. The Forum runs conversion programmes, practitioner workshops and a student pipeline with partner institutions.

  • Practitioner workshops
  • Conversion programmes
  • Student chapter

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Our agenda

Four constraints we are working on

Not everything matters equally. These four decide whether the programme lands on time.

Kakrapar Atomic Power Station, Gujarat01

A qualified domestic supply chain

Sixty per cent of project cost is equipment and materials. Getting Indian manufacturers through nuclear qualification is the difference between building here and importing.

Progress this cycle62%
How we are tackling it
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A licensing route newcomers can follow

Private entrants need a pathway they can plan against. We work with the regulator and applicants to make the sequence legible before money is committed.

Progress this cycle48%
How we are tackling it
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The people to run the programme

Specialist roles are the binding constraint. Conversion programmes from adjacent sectors are the only route that closes the gap in time.

Progress this cycle35%
How we are tackling it
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Public consent, earned openly

Deployment at this scale needs communities on side. That means plain answers about safety and waste, given before they are demanded.

Progress this cycle54%
How we are tackling it

Programmes

What we run through the year

A flagship gathering, a monthly briefing series, standing working groups and an open door for early-stage ventures.

Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2, Tamil Nadu
Flagship event

India Nuclear Energy Forum

Two days that set the sector’s agenda — plenary debate on policy and financing, technical tracks, and the year’s largest gathering of the Indian nuclear supply chain.

Annual · November
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Webinar series

Practitioner Briefings

Ninety-minute sessions on one problem at a time — licensing pathways, qualification evidence, fuel supply — with live questions to people who have done it.

Monthly · Free to attend
A pressurised heavy water reactor under construction at Kakrapar, Gujarat
Innovation programme

Start-up Corner

A standing platform for early-stage ventures to present to operators and investors, with mentoring from members who have taken technology through qualification.

Rolling intake
Kakrapar Atomic Power Station, Gujarat
Member programme

Working Groups

Small standing groups on supply chain qualification, workforce development and advanced reactor licensing, each producing published guidance each year.

Quarterly · Members
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2, Tamil Nadu
Outreach

Public Understanding

Plain-language explainers, school and university sessions, and open site-visit programmes — because deployment depends on consent as much as on engineering.

Year-round

Sponsors

Backed by the organizations building it

Sponsorship keeps the Forum independent. It funds the research we publish openly and the briefings we keep free to attend.

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Members

Why organizations join

“The Forum is the one place where a regulator, a manufacturer and a reactor developer will argue the same problem in front of each other. That is worth more than any report.”
Dr. Meera KrishnanDirector, Atomic Research Systems
“We came in as a manufacturer with no nuclear experience. The qualification working group saved us two years of guessing what auditors wanted.”
Fatima SheikhHead of Quality Assurance, Meridian Heavy Engineering
“Our first pre-application meeting went well because of a Forum briefing. That is a strange thing to be able to say, and it was decisive for us.”
Rohan IyerHead of Licensing, Advanced Reactor Technologies
“As a four-person startup we presented to three operators in one afternoon. Nothing else in this sector moves at that speed.”
Tanvi AgarwalCo-founder & CEO, Orbit Simulation Labs

Governance

The councils that steer the Forum

Elected from the membership across industry, research, policy and academia — and rotated, so no single interest sets the agenda.

Chair

Dr. Meera Krishnan

Atomic Research Systems

Materials & fuel research

Vice Chair

Vikram Raghavan

Bharat Nuclear Power Corporation

Fleet operations

Policy Council

Shalini Rao

Department of Nuclear Oversight

Licensing reform

Technology Council

Ananya Deshmukh

Advanced Reactor Technologies

Small modular reactors

Industry Council

Harish Patel

Meridian Heavy Engineering

Manufacturing capacity

Academic Council

Prof. Rajat Sen

Deccan Institute of Technology

Workforce & education

Insights

What the Forum is writing about

Independent analysis written with practitioners and published openly.

Policy

What the licensing reform actually changes for private entrants

The headline is private participation. The substance is a redesigned pre-application process, and it asks more of applicants than most expect.

6 min read
Industry

Domestic forging capacity is the real constraint on the 2047 target

Reactor designs are not the bottleneck. Large forgings, qualified welders and audit-ready quality systems are.

5 min read
SMR

Industrial heat, not the grid, may anchor the first SMR deployments

Steel, cement and chemicals need high-grade heat that renewables cannot supply. That demand is starting to shape reactor sizing decisions.

7 min read
Technology

Qualifying digital safety systems: the evidence problem

Digital I&C is better than the analogue equipment it replaces. Proving it to a regulator remains disproportionately difficult.

6 min read
Research

Inside a national post-irradiation examination programme

What a hot cell campaign reveals about cladding performance, and why the results take two years to arrive.

8 min read
Industry

Decommissioning planning starts at design, not at shutdown

Decisions taken in the first year of a project determine the cost of dismantling it sixty years later.

5 min read
A pressurised heavy water reactor under construction at Kakrapar, Gujarat

Membership

Be part of India’s nuclear energy future

Membership is open to organizations and individuals working anywhere in the nuclear ecosystem — from national operators to four-person startups.

  • A seat in the working groups setting sector guidance
  • Early access to research before it publishes
  • Delegate places at the flagship forum
  • Introductions made deliberately, not by chance
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Partners

Working with the ecosystem

Placeholder marks shown for prototype purposes — no real partnership is implied.

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Bharat Atomic CouncilNational Energy MissionClean Power AllianceMeridian Heavy IndustriesTrikon Engineering GroupSanrachna InfraVidyut ComponentsInstitute of Reactor SciencesDeccan University of TechnologyCentre for Energy PolicyKritika Digital SystemsOrbit Simulation LabsNucleus Energy ReviewGrid & Atom WeeklyBharat Atomic CouncilNational Energy MissionClean Power AllianceMeridian Heavy IndustriesTrikon Engineering GroupSanrachna InfraVidyut ComponentsInstitute of Reactor SciencesDeccan University of TechnologyCentre for Energy PolicyKritika Digital SystemsOrbit Simulation LabsNucleus Energy ReviewGrid & Atom Weekly

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  • Monthly ecosystem briefing
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  • New reports the week they publish

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