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One of the world's largest polluters has signed onto the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:
India, one of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, has ratified the Paris global climate agreement. Under the deal, India has committed to ensuring that at least 40% of its electricity will be generated from non-fossil sources by 2030.
[...] The Paris deal is the world's first comprehensive climate agreement. It will only come into force legally after it is ratified by at least 55 countries which between them produce at least 55% of global carbon emissions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced last month that India would ratify the agreement on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the struggle for independence from Britain.
Also at the UN News Centre, NPR, and DW.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Aiwendil on Tuesday October 04 2016, @08:11AM
Let's look it up (electricity, unless specified)
(2013)
1.2PWh Gross
750kWh/capita
220TWh transmission losses
Breakdown (2013)
697TWh black coal
170TWh brown coal
142TWh hydro
80TWh other renewables
65TWh natural gas
34TWh nuclear
23TWh oil
(Currently about 21% non-fossil, so they need another 256TWh to reach the goal)
Worth to note is that BP expects demand in india to increase 117% by 2035.
(If all their current and planned nuclear builds finishes they will reach their goal currently, and the 2030 target if all their proposed builds finishes)
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday October 04 2016, @10:24AM
They'll want to deter both Pakistan and China.
[...] India is estimated to have produced approximately 520 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium, sufficient for 100—130 nuclear warheads; however, not all of the material has been converted into warheads. Based on available information about its nuclear-capable delivery vehicles, the authors estimate that India has produced 80—100 nuclear warheads. [...] It will need more warheads to arm the new missiles it is currently developing. In addition to the Dhruva plutonium production reactor near Mumbai, India plans to construct a second reactor near Visakhapatnam, on the east coast. India is building an unsafeguarded prototype fast-breeder reactor at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research near Kalpakkam (about 1,000 kilometers or 620 miles south of Visakhapatnam), which will significantly increase India's plutonium production capacity once it becomes operational.
-- (doi: 10.1177/0096340212451431) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists July/August 2012 vol. 68 no. 4 96-101 [sagepub.com] (PDF)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @01:58PM
Someone needs to contain China, now that it holds USA by the balls.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:38PM
Well, another use for Pu is as a driver/seed in a thorium-reactor (or any breeder) - which India has stated it plans on doing.
Might also be worth pointing out that india has put 14 of their reactors under safeguards in the last seven years - 12 of those has online-refuelling... And they still have enough non-safeguarded capacity for it to be silly to worry about more production reactors..