Atomic energy is one of the three sectors that are reserved for public sector in spite of its huge potential for electricity production. Give one reason.
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The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) organized a one day seminar in Hindi on "Atomic Energy & Societal Development" on September 5, 2001 in New Delhi. While inaugurating the seminar, Dr. D. N. Tiwari, Member, Planning Commission appreciated the various programmes and achievements of DAE and said that the work done by DAE in various sectors for societal development needs to reach to the general public on mass scale. Dr. Tiwari emphasised on the need to make available adequate financial resources so that the technologies developed by the department can be commercialized in a big way. He said that the target of achieving an installed capacity of 20,000 MWe by the year 2020 can be achieved as early as 2010 provided the required funds and other resources are made available.