India-Russia summit to boost small nuclear reactors, localisation

New Delhi: The 23rd India-Russia annual summit slated for December will give a strong push to expanding bilateral civil nuclear cooperation including small and modular reactors (SMRs) and enhancing localisation of nuclear plant equipment.

Alexei Likhachev, director general at Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom met Ajit Kumar Mohanty, director general of the Department of Atomic Energy in Mumbai on Monday to discuss developing new large and small-scale nuclear power plant projects in India and broader nuclear fuel cycle cooperation.