Earlier today, Sergio Gor, the U.S. ambassador to India, spoke with Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty, secretary of India’s Department of Atomic Energy, ahead of Mohanty’s upcoming trip to the United States, as Washington and New Delhi look to deepen cooperation on civil nuclear energy.
“Ambassador Sergio Gor spoke with Department of Atomic Energy, India Secretary Ajit Mohanty ahead of his forthcoming travel to the United States. Our nations are working closely together to advance civil nuclear capabilities and partnerships,” Gor said in a Facebook post.
The conversation comes as India begins implementing the SHANTI Act — Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India — which opens the country’s civil nuclear sector to greater private-sector participation. Both governments are now working to turn that new legal framework into commercial and technological partnerships.
I believe that American and Canadian companies have unprecedented opportunity to benefit from India’s ambitious plan to expand nuclear energy production from less than 9 GW now to 100 GW in the next 20 years. This includes not only reactor makers, but also manufacturers of components and subsystems, EPC companies, design companies and service providers.
Gor also met Mohanty in June and congratulated him on the bill’s passage, underscoring the importance of the two countries’ energy relationship.
