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.
Insulted and bullied by Donald Trump, European leaders are asking where they go from here. The right choice isn’t to kneel or fight back, but to disengage.
Two sides also announce signing of a Security & Defence Partnership, launch negotiations for an intelligence sharing agreement & explore India’s addition to Horizon Europe programme.
Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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.