Russia to sign $780 million nuclear fuel deal with India
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Feb. 9, IRNA -- Russian nuclear fuel producer TVEL expects to sign a 780 million dollar contract on fuel supplies to Indian nuclear power plants.
"The contract is likely to be signed on February 11 in Mumbai," UNI reported quoting spokesman for Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom.
The contract could make Russia the first country to supply nuclear fuel to India since the Nuclear Suppliers Group lifted a three-decade ban on nuclear fuel sales to India on September last year.
Under the deal, Russia would supply India with 2,000 metric tons of uranium pellets.
In December, the French company Areva and India's Atomic Energy Department signed a deal for the supply of 300 tons of uranium to be used in Indian nuclear reactors under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
The fuel contract would be another step in burgeoning nuclear cooperation between Russia and India.
On December 5, Moscow and Delhi signed an agreement to build an additional four reactors for the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, in Tamil Nadu, where it is completing two reactors under an earlier contract, and construct new nuclear plants in India.
TVEL is one of the world's leading manufacturers of nuclear fuel, which it supplies to 73 commercial (17 per cent of global market) and 30 research reactors in 13 countries.
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