John, where are India's plans to phase out coal power plants?
You give a false choice. Why? Because military and mining interests drive the nuclear industry, NOT nuclear power or the trojan horse of it being a solution to greenhouse gases.
At least by prohibiting uranium sales to India we could encourage it to use its existing reserves for domestic use, perhaps even to decommission its bombs for power reactor fuel (which it wont do, hence demonstrating the lack of a dire need for N power and my above statement) and Australia could stand to exert considerable pressure for India to at least ratify the CTBT and reduce escalated deals between Pakistan and China.

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Phase out?

India is building "ultra-mega" coal fired plants, using coal from Indonesia and Australia.

All the fissile material in India's arsenal won't power its nuclear plants for very long. You're not dealing with a Soviet sized arsenal.

Even if bombs vs electricity was an option, India would just build bombs and use its massive deposits of high sulphur coal for electricity.

As long as China possesses nuclear weapons (and has territorial claims on parts of India), India will also possess nuclear arms.

So this is all about weapons then and not about a "need' for nuclear energy. Thankyou for helping prove my point.
And the issue must then be reframed on that basis - military and mining.

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Some figures:
India has 3,300 MW of installed nuclear electrical capacity.
It wants to add 20,000 MW of nuclear.
Its proven Uranium ore reserves will support only 10,000 megawatts.

At present India gets 54% of power from coal, 34% from oil+gas, 3% from nuclear, 6% from hydro, 1% from wind + biomass, 2% from solar.
It hopes to get 10% from solar in 5 years.

Under its 11th 5 year plan it wants to install 70,000 MW of capacity (all types).
India suffered a massive shortfall of 20,000 megawatts in power capacity addition in its 10th five-year plan.

There is a 20-25% power shortage in Maharashtra, 20% in Uttar Pradesh and 10-15% in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi.

Many towns and villages get 4 hours of electricity per day.

Captive power (private homes and businesses are thought to have 20,000 MW of capacity) is fueled by diesel and petrol.
Average power theft or transmission and distribution loss is more than 20%

Indian coal is particularly dirty - high sulphur with little SO2 abatement at plants. Most of its Uranium ore is of poor quality. The primary Jadugoda mine produces ore with 0.02% U. I doubt that even qualifies as ore in Australia. The waste tailings of Australian mines probably have more Uranium in them.

In spite of this India has 17 operational nuclear power reactors with 8 more under construction. India's Uranium reserves, while not capable of fueling the envisioned 20,000 MW of thermal reactor capacity, can fuel about half this figure. India's small arsenal (<150) is easily taken care of. The maximum figures suggested by retired military - 400 to 450 weapons would have no appreciable effect on the indigenous power generating capacity.
If India opted for a superpower sized arsenal (many thousands of weapons), it could do so by using about 25-30% of its proven Uranium reserves according to estimates by Ashley Tellis.