Russia has expressed its readiness to significantly expand cooperation with India in the area of atomic energy, including constructing high-capacity nuclear power units at a new site in India. Ajit Kumar Mohanty, the Secretary of India's Department of Atomic Energy, met with Alexey Likhachev, the Director General of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation of Russia, on Thursday to discuss furthering nuclear energy cooperation between the two countries.
According to a statement by Rosatom, officials from both sides visited the Pilot Demonstration Energy Complex (PDEC) in Seversk, Tomsk region, Russia. During this visit, they engaged in comprehensive discussions on the prospective areas of Russian-Indian cooperation in the nuclear sector. Likhachev emphasized Russia's readiness for a serious expansion of cooperation with India in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. This expansion includes the serial construction of Russian-designed high-capacity nuclear power units at a new site in India, implementing land-based and floating low-power generation projects, collaborating in the nuclear fuel cycle area, and exploring non-power applications of nuclear technologies. However, Rosatom did not specify the type of nuclear power reactors planned for the new site in India.
Last week, India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar mentioned that India is looking for additional sites for Russian nuclear reactors. Russia and India are currently collaborating on constructing six 1,000 MW nuclear reactors at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, two of which have already been commissioned.
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