Engineering and site-design work is set to begin immediately for six Westinghouse Electric Co. nuclear power plants in India as part of the second-most-populous nation's efforts to curb emissions from fossil fuels. The contract is the first under a U.S.-lndia civil nuclear accord reached in 2008, John Morton, White House senior director for energy and climate change, said during a conference call June 7. The agreement set a deadline of June 2017 to finalize the contract for the project between Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd. and Westinghouse, a unit of Toshiba Corp.
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