Part 2
Disasters-in-the-make

Part 3
The Russian connection

Part 4
Not power, bombs!

Part 5
Experts speak!

1944.

The year when the world came to know of the wonderful potential of nuclear energy, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, prime architect of India's atomic energy programme, prophesied that we would apply it to produce electricity in just two decades.

Five decades have passed. Bhabha's dream is still unfulfilled.

We have spent millions of rupees in setting up 12 nuclear power reactors across the country. But what these have achieved is less than 3 per cent of the envisaged capacity.

Worse, these power plants are disasters in the making. For, we continue with outmoded reactors.

What throttled our ambitious energy programme?

In a five-part series, Senior Associate Editor George Iype investigates why the sector is ailing. And how it is a threat to public safety.