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.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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.