Private companies may be kept out of Uranium mining

New Delhi: India may not allow private firms to engage in uranium mining and decide to keep the activity to government companies under the amendments proposed in the atomic energy bill, said people with knowledge of the matter.

The Atomic Energy Bill, 2025, which is expected to embody changes to the Atomic Energy Act, 1962, as well as the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Act, 2010, may keep mining of prescribed substance, which could include any material for producing nuclear energy, as one of the licensed activities but only for government-owned corporations.