Bokaro, March 1: Mineral-rich Jharkhand has both the power and prowess to split an atom, eminent scientist and director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) Ratan Kumar Sinha said here today. Buoyed by the handsome 31 per cent increase in the 2011-12 budget allocation for atomic energy, the premier multi-disciplinary nuclear research cradle of the country is hoping to expand its base and Sinha said it would willingly extend a hand if the state wished to exploit its vast uranium reserve. He, however, clarified that no proposal on establishing atomic reactors in Jharkhand had been drafted yet. The N-scientist, who was here visiting his brother in Sector IV-A, maintained atomic energy could put the country in the global big league. Fuel like coal or oil or gas would not last forever, he explained.