India is hopeful $100 bn foreign investment in nuclear power sector

India is hopeful of getting more than $100 billion worth of foreign investment in the nuclear power sector in the next two decades and a quarter of it would come from France, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has said.

"In the coming two decades, India will see investments in excess of $100 billion in the nuclear power sector alone and I am sure that at least a quarter of these will come from France," Sharma said, addressing the fourth India-France CEOs Forum here Monday.