The need of the hour is for India to forge an ambitious SMR public-private partnership with the US–the country that spearheaded the exception for India at the Nuclear Suppliers Group 16 years ago.
In 2024-25, India exported $387.54 bn worth of services, against imports of $198.14 bn, earning all-time high surplus of $189.40 bn. This offset 2/3rd of goods trade deficit.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
The author is a greedy idiot paid by the US State Deptt & Holtec and having no idea of the today’s SMR market. All US SMR designs exist only on paper, having no reference of implemented operating projects. US will only sell a bunch of paper to India and later on declare going bust, like they did with NuScale Co. (evidence easily available in open sources). You may like it or not, but the only real physically working SMR project in the world is that in the “lower-standard” Russia.
The author is a greedy idiot paid by the US State Deptt & Holtec and having no idea of the today’s SMR market. All US SMR designs exist only on paper, having no reference of implemented operating projects. US will only sell a bunch of paper to India and later on declare going bust, like they did with NuScale Co. (evidence easily available in open sources). You may like it or not, but the only real physically working SMR project in the world is that in the “lower-standard” Russia.
India doesn’t understand small reactor; she understands only freebies, subsidies, reservation, loan waivers, and chants of jai socialism.