Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, on his first overseas tour since winning an election last month signed four agreements with India including one for civilian nuclear co-operation, which envisages an “exchange of knowledge and expertise, sharing of resources, capacity building and training of personnel in peaceful uses of nuclear energy.”...
Kudankulam Nuclear Units 3, 4, to Go Commercial in 2020-2021
The proposed units 3 and 4, the twin 1,000-MW reactors at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, have cleared all administrative and statutory clearances and are proposed for to begin construction in 2015 and 2016. Commissioning is scheduled five years after that. Unit 1 is in production and Unit 2 is...
India's State-Run Reinsurer May Offer Nuclear Liability Coverage
India is working to set up an insurance pool to indemnify global nuclear suppliers against liability in the case of a nuclear accident, in a bid to resolve concerns of suppliers over exposure to risk. The 2010 nuclear liability law discouraged Western companies and strained U.S.-India relations as companies said...
Modi’s "ambitious vision" for Nuclear Energy
Indian Prime Minister Modi and Russian President Putin signed an agreement whereby Russia plans to build a number of new nuclear power plants in India, cooperate in the joint extraction of uranium and in the production of nuclear fuel and waste elimination. Modi said that the two countries had set...
Kudankulam Nuclear Plant to Begin Full Commercial Production in January
Commercial operations of the first 1,000 MW unit of the Kudankulam nuclear power project situated in the state of Tamil Nadu near the southern tip of India, are now likely to start by January 22, 2015, as an earlier deadline could not be met due to technical problems. Nuclear Power...
India needs to address concerns about nuclear liability
According to the Economic Times, the US-India Business Council (USIBC) has said that India needs to address the concerns of nuclear liability bill if it wants foreign and domestic Indian suppliers to participate fully in the Indian Market. USIBC also said that two companies (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Westinghouse Electric Company)...