Why in news
The SHANTI Act, 2025 opened India's nuclear sector to private capital for the first time in over sixty years and NTPC, Adani and Jindal Steel have each announced capacity commitments, all converging on the same PHWR starting technology.
Why for UPSC
Match-the-pairs questions on scheme-linked figures test precise recall of who-committed-what - a common Prelims trap when several similar-sounding numbers are attached to different entities in the same news item.
Prelims summary
Under the SHANTI Act, NTPC (30 GWe), Adani (10 GWe) and Jindal Steel (18 GWe) have together committed 58 GWe of private nuclear capacity, all starting with the indigenised 700 MWe PHWR design toward India's 100 GWe nuclear target.