This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin after the talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to Indian mass media, Modi might offer Rosatom the second site in Andhra Pradesh for the construction of another Russian nuclear station. “We agreed to increase mutual investment through more intensive cooperation in the industry and implementation of major infrastructural and energy projects. Russia is involved in the construction of Kudankulam nuclear power plant. Its first unit was commissioned in June 2014, and only a few weeks remain before the startup of the second unit. We plan to begin the construction of units 3 and 4 in the near future, and negotiations are underway on units 5 and 6. We have agreed that India will allocate another site for the construction of Russian-designed units with the latest VVER-1200 reactors employing the latest and safest technologies. These are all practical steps directed at implementing an important document we signed a year ago – our strategic vision for strengthening cooperation in peaceful uses of atomic energy between the Republic of India and the Russian Federation. It contains plans to jointly build in India at least six more power units over a period of 20 years,” Vladimir Putin said. Rosatom CEO Sergey Kirienko and India’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia Pundi Srinivasan Raghavan signed an agreement to set up the production of Russian nuclear power equipment in India.
Russia implements in India an ambitious nuclear power plant project at Kudankulam. The first unit was brought online in October 2013. In April 2014, Russia and India signed a general framework agreement to build units 3 and 4 at Kudankulam. In December 2014, Moscow and Delhi signed a document defining their strategic vision for the construction of Russian-designed power reactors in India. This document provides for up to 25 reactor units to be built in India, cooperation in the construction of Russian-designed nuclear stations in third countries, and joint uranium mining, nuclear fuel fabrication and waste management.
