According to Business Standard Toshiba Corporation's Westinghouse Electric hopes to clinch a deal to build six nuclear reactors in India by end-March, CEO Daniel Roderick said, in time for a possible visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington to attend a global nuclear summit. A Westinghouse team was already...
India’s NPCIL receives Steam Generators for Kakrapar Atomic Power Station Unit 3
Larsen & Toubro Limited, an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai has supplied two 700 MWe steam generators for Unit 3 of the Kakrapar nuclear energy plant located in the state of Gujarat. Each steam generator weighs about 215 tons and is made of special low-alloy quenched & tempered steel ...
India, France Agree to Expedite Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s visit to France last month, India signed two agreements related to the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant located in the western state of Maharashtra. One of these, a pre-engineering agreement signed with AREVA, Alstom and Nuclear Power Corporation of India, aims to bring greater clarity on...
India Inks Nuclear Energy Pact with Sri Lanka
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...