Terming the India-U.S. nuclear cooperation envisaged under the nuclear deal two decades ago as “an important piece of unfinished business”, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey R. Pyatt said on Monday there is a “shared interest” to figure out how the two countries can move forward, both on the large traditional reactors which were foreseen as part of the nuclear deal but also importantly the “fantastic new opportunities” that are emerging around Small and Modular Reactor (SMR) technology.
Elaborating on the civil nuclear cooperation, Mr. Pyatt referred to the conversations he had in India especially at the India-U.S. Forum and said he found strong interest from Indian companies, including Adani, Tata, Reliance, Birla, all of whom have expressed interest in using SMRs as part of their larger decarbonisation strategy.
