The USA, France, Russia, Canada, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Namibia had already signed some level of nuclear power cooperation agreement with India in the wake of the 2008 breakthrough led by President Bush. Financial benefits have flowed most to Russia and Rance so far. In Seoul last week, visiting Indian...
Construction of Seventh Reactor at India's largest nuclear facility begins
This week, the First Pour of Concrete (FPC) was initiated at RAPP-7, the seventh reactor to built at the Rawatbhata, Rajasthan location in the deserts of northwestern India. The new plant will have a capacity of 700 megawatts, the largest heavy water reactor possible. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India...
Suppliers and Customer Express concern about Nuclear Liability Law
India's parliament passed a new liability law last year. The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 determines how the liability for an accident would be apportioned among equipment suppliers and vendors under the provisions of the nuclear liability law. But many suppliers find it lacking. Equipment makers, including India's...
Nuclear Power Corporation proceeds with West Bengal site surveys
India is planning a rapid expansion of its nuclear power plant capacity. New Sites in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh have been identified and land acquisition processes started. Now there is news about the site in Haripur, West Bengal. According to NPCIL Chairman Dr. SK Jain, "Ground work including collection...
Russia seeks India co-investment in $3 billion Elkon Uranium Project
Russia offers India 49% control of joint uranium mining projects in country, such as the proposed Elkon development. Russia's Rosatom and India's Uranium Corporation of India Limited have been negotiating the joint development of a large uranium reserve in the republic of Sakha, Sergei Kiriyenko, the Russian state nuclear holding's...
Kaiga Unit 4 to produce electricity for grid in January 2011
Unit 4 of the Kaiga nuclear power plant in Karnataka state started up on November 27th , and is likely to be connected to India's grid in January 2011. This is the last of the original 220 MWe largely indigenously-designed reactors, and the Nuclear Power Corporation is now building 700...