On the first day of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official visit to Great Britain in November, Prime Minister David Cameron signed a civil nuclear agreement with its former colony, reaffirming the importance of addressing climate change and promoting “secure, affordable and sustainable supplies of energy”. The U.K. Department of...
U.S. and India Move Forward on Implementing Nuclear Deal
India and the U.S. are further on the path to implementing the civilian nuclear deal with senior nuclear department officials of both sides exchanging the signed text of the “administrative arrangements” that would guide the deal, says a report by ManoramaOnline. This follows the cryptic announcements made by both countries...
U.S. and India Come to an Understanding on the Nuclear Energy Agreement
In 2006 Washington and India first reached a nuclear energy understanding which was to have allowed New Delhi access to nuclear technology and fuel without giving up its weapons program. Then, in 2008, a 45-state Nuclear Supplies Group approved a policy of nuclear cooperation with India and another nuclear power...
India Reports “forward looking” Talks with U.S. Nuclear Energy Advance Team
Ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to India in late January 2015, a meeting of a US-India contact group took place in New Delhi to have discussions on civil nuclear cooperation. The negotiators included U.S. industry representatives from GE-Hitachi and Westinghouse and counterparts from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India,...
Westinghouse and Nuclear Power Corporation of India sign an agreement to agree in the future
Westinghouse announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with NPCIL agreeing to negotiate an early works agreement (EWA) for the construction of up to six AP1000 units at the Mithi Virdi site in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Westinghouse said that the MoU "represents significant progress toward the...
Nuclear energy production rises 22 percent in India
Aided by imported uranium and new plants, India' s Nuclear Power Corporation (NPCIL) generated 32,455 million units of electricity in the year ended March 31, 2012, 22.5 per cent higher than the year before. Currently, NPCIL operates 19 nuclear power reactors in the country. NPCIL said revenue was $1.9 billion...