Indian Nuclear Society sixth annual conference on electricity generation and the environment

India needs to develop and deploy all sources of electric power as rapidly as possible if it is to fulfill its mission of ensuring a decent standard of living for its people. Electricity generating technologies, like many other technologies, can have deleterious effects on the environment if due attention is not paid to this aspect in the development and deployment of these technologies. Issues related to environment and ecological aspects of electricity generation are receiving considerable attention not only by the scientific community but also by economists, development planners and most notably the public at large. The Indian Nuclear Society (INS) has chosen the theme Electricity Generation and the Environment for its Sixth Annual Conference held at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay during March 14-16, 1995 (INSAC-95). The conference dealt with environmental aspects of different modes of electricity generation with special reference to nuclear energy. Several contributed papers on the topic of relevance were presented at the conference. Papers relevant to INIS are indexed separately