A Parliamentary Standing Committee Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change has said the Indo-US nuclear deal has not yet resulted in any “new” power projects with foreign assistance and that the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) should, for now, adopt home-grown 700 MW heavy water reactors for its expansion programme.
Signed in 2008, the Indo-US nuclear deal ended India’s nuclear pariah status and enabled import of uranium for its power reactors. In 2008, France also signed a deal.
Under the deal signed with US, WestingHouse Co is to build six reactors of 1208 MW each. GE-Hitachi, another US company, is also to build six reactors at Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh.
