India’s nuclear planners are basking in newfound momentum for the country’s ambitious reactor construction program, with suppliers both domestic and foreign now moving toward actual supply contracts. This comes some eight years after the Nuclear Suppliers Group made an exemption for India from rules prohibiting export to countries not part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and six years after India passed nuclear liability legislation that scared away suppliers. But now talks between US-based Westinghouse and New Delhi over a prospective 6-unit newbuild may be concluded by the middle of next year.
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