Kazakhstan, the Central Asian nation with the second largest uranium reserves and almost 15% of the world’s recoverable uranium, is currently the largest supplier of the commodity to India. The country is looking at scaling up its supply of the key energy source to India from 5,000 tons during 2015-19...
Australia Readies Uranium Supply for India
At a joint news conference in New Delhi with visiting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Turnbull said Australia was looking forward to the first export of Australian uranium to India as soon as possible. "We have worked closely with India to meet our respective requirements...
Rio Tinto to Export Australian Uranium to India by 2017
Sam Walsh, the chief executive of Rio Tinto Ltd., announced that his company is expected to start exporting uranium to India in another two years by which time safeguards to use the uranium only for power generation would be in place. Modi and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott signed a...
India's Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor to Go "Critical" in 2015
India’s 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalapakkam in Tamil Nadu missed its September 2014 deadline for first criticality, and will be commissioned in 2015 reported Jitendra Singh, minister of state for space and atomic energy. Erection of all major components of the reactor has been completed. Commissioning...
Australia to sell uranium in India
According to Patrick Suckling, Australian High Commissioner to India, Australia is willing to sell uranium to India but it is subject to negotiations. Indeed, before Australia starts exporting its Uranium, some requirements have to be met. First of all, the civil nuclear co-operation talks need to be concluded and secondly,...
Canada aligning to sell Uranium to India
Canada is working to finalize an agreement with India that will ease the export of uranium by companies such as Cameco Corp., its Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said during a visit to New Delhi this week. The two countries signed a nuclear cooperation pact in June 2010 to enable...