India says nuclear energy will reduce carbon emissions

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Updated September 30, 2009 19:57:57

India plans to massively expand its nuclear energy output in what it says will be a major contribution to combat climate change. The planned increase over four decades would produce almost half a million megawatts of energy - 100 times current production. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made the announcement during a conference on the peaceful uses of nuclear power in New Delhi. India's anti-nuclear community opposes the government's nuclear program on environmental grounds, and says it won't deliver its energy promises either.

Presenter: Karon Snowdon
Speakers: Dr SP Udayakumar, coordinator of the National Alliance of Anti-Nuclear Movements in India; Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; Mohamad El-Baradei, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency

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