India’s civil nuclear liability legislation (The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010) has been controversial ever since the draft Bill was introduced to the Parliament in May 2010. In a hurry to get the Bill passed in the Parliament before the US President’s visit to India, the government did not even check if it dovetailed with existing legislation and case law. In fact, the Act abounds in internal inconsistencies...Here we will discuss a more serious inconsistency in the Act regarding the total civil liability of operators in case of nuclear accidents involving multiple nuclear installations.