NEW DELHI : African countries such as Ghana are looking to buy nuclear power plants from India and such deals will be concluded swiftly if New Delhi extends soft loans to these nations, said Ravi B. Grover, Homi Bhabha National Institute chair, department of atomic energy.
Grover, who is also a member of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission, pointed out that Russia, which was building six power plants in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu with a combined capacity of more than 6,000 megawatts (MW), had extended a loan to India for the construction of the units.
“They (Russia) are giving a major part of the capital cost as a soft loan,” Grover said in a panel discussion at Mint’s annual Energyscape event in New Delhi on Monday.
