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.
The BCCI decision has given new life to the lunatic fringe of the Hindu Right. It now has the confidence to force policy changes in accordance with its communal campaigns.
The latest comment comes as New Delhi and Washington have yet to sign a trade agreement. India’s purchase of Russian oil has reduced, but Moscow remains top source for crude.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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.