ministeter, solar would costst about 20 rups a unit, , and today solar is costining less than 3 rupeeses a ununit. i mean, it is a a drama- nuclear cocosts are gogoing up.l coststs are going up, , but solr costs s are plummemeting, and di thinink thatat works to our advantage. that gets reflected in this commitmentnt that we hae madede that by 2030, we will h e 40% of our electricity from non-fossil-fuel sources. i don't think that's an unreasonable target, i mean, because already we are knocking onon 30%. narrator: and sunita naraiain, evenen as she calls for greater urgency, says that india is stilill setting g an example foe world on climamate change. narain: at''s nonot geing ouou about dia and poution is the factct that we are begininning o act onon it, andnd i, therefore, feel that that''s the message that neeeeds to go o out to thee worlrld, that we a are serioioud we will find solutions, and those solutions will actually force the rest o othe world d to reinvent the way they do things. nanarrator: experts like sunita narain believe that the need to tackle air pollution could galvanize the

sciences to do some research on incidents of cancer in the vicinity of nuclelear plantnts all over the ununited states. is that going to be a a helpful study, , do yu think? >> yes and no. the national academy of sciences has conducucted for 7 consecutive occasions a thing called the biological effects of ionizing radiation, and they put out a report recently, number vii, and it was a good report and it said no radiation is safe, radiation is cumulative, and, yes, i trust them. there's a huge push by the industry to prevent really decent research being done, but in a way, it's unnecessary because the german government-- and the gerermans are very precise with their data-- examined, i think, 16 old reactors and looked at children under the age of 5 who lived within 5k of the reactors, and they had more than double the incidents of leukemia--children are 10 to 20 times more radiosensitive than adults--more than double the incidents of leukemia and a high incidence of solid cancers. and the closer they lived to the reaeactor, the h higher the incidence of malignancy. now, that study is absolutely

there used to be a time not so long ago here in the ununited statetes that companies said, "the only way we can survive--we have to be able to compete--is we need t to be able to hire these 6 year olds." it's called child labor. "and if you don't let us do it, well, then the british will allow it to be done. they'llll do it and the spanish and the french. we'll never be able to compete. and you must..." andnd at a certain point, the american pepeople looked at the condititions of 6 year r ol- and we had that working-- and said, "we understand you have competitive problems. we understand you have the... but that you can't do. you can't have kids, and you can't do what you're doing to them. that's out. you have to find another way." now, does that make sense? why exactly didn't we say to them, "uh, you have problems. we understand. we'll try to help you. but one option n you don't have e is you can get up and leave. you u can't tetell your workers on friday, 'don't come in on monday. we're moving to s shanghai.' mm-mm. not available. you lose. find another way. get a bebetter machine.