Special Issue on ‘Nuclear energy and Indian society: public engagement, risk assessment and legal frameworks

India’s Parliamentary election in 2014 witnessed formation of a new government. One of the first visits the new Prime Minster made was a trip to Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai – cradle of India’s nuclear programme (Department of Atomic Energy 2014). The visit is historic and has wider significance in many ways; showing continuity of policy and purpose and a real political statement that the government may be new, but the government’s thrust on nuclear programme is not for bargain.