India and Russia have signed a protocol on amendments to the 2008 intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in construction of additional nuclear reactors in Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site and in construction of Russia-designed nuclear power plants at new sites in India.

MOUs and Agreement

India and Russia have signed a protocol on amendments to the 2008 intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in construction of additional nuclear reactors in Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site and in construction of Russia-designed nuclear power plants at new sites in India. Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom State Corporation, and Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India, Secretary of Department for Atomic Energy of the Government of India, signed in the agreement during their visit to KKNPP site where the Russian nuclear energy agency has built 2 X 1,000 MWe VVER nuclear reactors and is constructing four more reactors with similar capacity. During the two-day visit, the Russian delegation inspected the power units being constructed as the second and third stages of the KKNPP i.e., the construction of reactors 3 to 6 and discussed the long-term cooperation agenda. The KKNPP in Tamil Nadu is a joint initiative of the two countries and the flagship project of bilateral technological and energy cooperation.


      The negotiations resulted in the signing of a significant document under the joint Russian-Indian project, namely, a protocol to the intergovernmental accord on the construction of power units for the second and third stages of the KKNPP in 2008.

      The Russian nuclear energy agency has built two 1,000 MW VVER reactors at the KKNPP site, with plans to construct four more of similar capacity.

      During a two-day visit, the Russian delegation evaluated power units in the second and third stages of the KKNPP, including reactors 3–6, and discussed long-term cooperation.

 

     


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