New Delhi, April 17 -- India has set a target to scale up its nuclear power capacity from the current 8.8 gigawatt (GW) to 100 GW by 2047, implying an over ten-fold increase, Central Electricity Authority (CEA) Chairperson Ghanshyam Prasad said on Friday.

"A report was made on how do we really achieve 100 gigawatts of nuclear energy by 2047. Today, there is a capacity of 8.8 gigawatt. We have to increase it to 100 gigawatt. That means more than 10 times we are going to increase. It's going to be a good pace at which it has to be developed," Prasad said.

Prasad stated this on the sidelines of the Inaugural Session to Focus on India's 100 GW Nuclear Power Roadmap held on the national capital.

He said that when the roadmap was prepared, s...