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Except for a political panic attack in Germany, most other nations have the "full steam ahead" sign out for their new reactor projects There's been a lot of overblown rhetoric about the so-called "death" of the global nuclear renaissance. Anti-nuclear groups have trumpeted that...

No deals for reactor components without nonproliferation commitments India's refusal to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty may delay, or even stop, delivery of massive reactor pressure vessels from Japan Steel Works (JSW). India has plans to build 20 GWe of new nuclear reactors in the next...

One of the world’s oldest civilizations grapples with 21st century technology dilemmas In an effort to smooth the rough edges of a domestic law on liability of suppliers of components for nuclear reactors, India has signed an international agreement at the IAEA which set standards for compensation in...

It’s liability law may lock out U.S. firms. Pres. Obama will want a resolution during his November visit. Indian pride in its growing role in the Asian nuclear renaissance was highlighted October 10 in a statement by Prithviraj Chavan , the incumbent government's Science & Technology Minister...

Seoul wants to know why it is treated differently than India Negotiations between the United States and South Korea over spent nuclear fuel reprocessing set to begin in October will get high visibility a month later when the G20 meeting takes place in Seoul on November 11 and 12. South Korea wants the...

If these two countries want nuclear energy, they have a strange way of showing it The political leaders of two countries that really need their nuclear reactors are pursuing the goal with all the grace and style of an oversized truck stuck in reverse. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is not backing...

Opposition remains strong against American business interests Controversial legislation to establish monetary liability limits in case of a nuclear energy accident was introduced to the Indian parliament last week for the second time. Last March Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to withdraw the bill...

Sweden moves ahead on policy for new reactors The Wall Street Journal reports March 25 that the incumbent government is confident enough of public support for nuclear energy, just six months prior to an election, to introduce legislation to allow construction of new reactors. If enacted, it will complete...

India 'Roadmap' includes four more Russian reactors at Kudankulam . . . but r uling coalition withdraws bill to cap liability for U.S. firms after protests from left-wing parties 15 March ( NucNet ): India has agreed a ‘roadmap’ for the construction of further nuclear power plants in the country...

UAE mega-nuclear deal gets put on on ice The $40 billion deal for at least three and as many as five nuclear reactors to be built in the United Arab Emirates is on ice, and this time it is serious.  According to a Dec 12 wire service report from Mumbai, India, an executive with a firm reportedly...

A series of groundbreaking deals are part of a drive to build 20 GWe by 2020 The visit to the U.S. of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the week before Thanksgiving was marked by a series of events related to India’s commitments to action on climate change and the use of nuclear energy to meet them...

Nuclear Becomes ‘A Real Business Opportunity’ For China and India This is the full text of an interview with William Ramsay , (right) director of the energy program at the Institut Français  des Relations Internationales    He talked Nov 9 to NucNet about emerging nuclear markets India...

India - No reactor deals without reprocessing U.S. vendors of nuclear reactors seeking to build at least 10 GWe of civilian facilities in India to generate electricity may be frozen out of the market over the issue of reprocessing of the spent fuel from the plants.  In an exclusive report in The...

French and Russian firms are in with major deals Areva, the world’s biggest manufacturer of nuclear reactors, has signed a deal with India to sell at least two and possibly six 1,600 MWe EPR nuclear reactors according to a report by Bloomberg wire service.  The reactor deal is worth an estimated...

Three dozen U.S. firms, and 60 executives, travel to Mumbai  for trade discussions The U.S. India Business Council concluded this week a historic trade mission to India to ink deals for nuclear fuel and reactor technologies.  The U.S. Department of Commerce officially sanctioned the trade mission...

Change occurs in the blink of an eye and also over a lifetime Two months ago when Nitin Pai, the editor of Pagati, a political journal in India, asked me to write an article on that nation's entry into the nuclear renaissance, I had no idea it would publish in the context of international turmoil...

Terrorist attacks in Mumbai are reason it will be re-scheduled to a later date The U.S.-India Business Council ( USIBC ) told this blog via email  today Nov 28 the official U.S. Trade Mission for nuclear energy , scheduled to take place starting Dec 2, will be re-scheduled to a later date. ...

Four new reactors for 4,200 MW will be built at Kudankulam Sergey Kiriyenko , (right) Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corp., visited the construction site of India's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant ( Tamilnadu , Southern India), on Nov 20 and inked a deal on the spot which will be...

The global financial crisis means uranium can be had at a deep discount India faces a wide open market for nuclear fuel according to Shyam Saran (right), a special envoy for the prime minister for the nuclear deal cleared last month by the NSG and the U.S. Congress.  With its ticket punched based...

The House voted for it earlier this week Congress approved a landmark deal ending the three-decade ban on U.S. nuclear trade with India. Reuters reports final approval came as the Senate voted to ratify the deal 86-13, sending the legislation to President Bush to sign into law. The Senate's move...

A breakthrough comes in Vienna after three days of tough negotiations The BBC reports the group of nations which regulates the global nuclear trade has approved a US proposal to lift restrictions on selling nuclear technology to India. The controversial deal now needs to be ratified by the US Congress...

Latest wire service reports ~ updates throughout the day (1400 GMT) Reuters reports that delegates to the meeting of the  Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) taking place in Vienna, Austria, today (9/5) said India's pledges to honor the nuclear nonproliferation treaty do not go far enough. Member...

Rep, Howard Berman releases a secret letter to Congress  Check Siddharth Varadarajan's blog for late breaking developments and reports direct from Vienna. The Washington Post reports that the U.S. will not sell sensitive nuclear technologies to India and would immediately terminate all trade...

Nuclear Suppliers Group likely to say "no" to U.S. plan to sell uranium to India The U.S. nuclear deal with India is likely to fail to gain approval   this week by an international body that controls the sale of uranium, nuclear fuel, and related technologies.  Six small but...

The 45-nation nuclear fuel cartel failed to agree on a U.S.-India nuclear technology trade pact According to wire service reports , representatives of 45  nations meeting in Vienna this week to decide whether to lift a ban on nuclear trade with India ended their talks without making a decision. ...