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Jun
Moscow: Indigenous manufacturing of major components and ensuring a strong participation from the domestic industry are the major challenges before the Indian nuclear power programme now, says former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chief M R Srinivasan. "For a large nuclear power capacity to be built in a country like India, it is very important to have major components made within the country. Otherwise economics will be not so good," Srinivasan told in a wide-ranging interview here on the sidelines of the Atomexpo 2017 organised by Rosatom. Lamenting that nuclear power formed only three per cent of India's electricity generation, he said:…