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U.S. commercial nuclear team meets Kakodkar

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MUMBAI: The commercial nuclear delegation of the U.S.-India Business Council met here on Thursday Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar and Chairman and Managing Director of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India S.K. Jain and discussed areas of nuclear supplies India could be interested in after the signing of the 123 Agreement.

The Council Director for Policy Advocacy, Ted Jones, told reporters that the delegation was in India to explore the role the U.S. companies could play in India following the Agreement. Earlier, they had met several functionaries of the Union Government in New Delhi.

The delegation that included Mr. Tim Richards, director of International Energy Policy of General Electric (GE) and chairman of the Council's working group on civilian nuclear energy also met executives of Larsen and Toubro and Anil Ambani group and discussed collaborations the American companies can have with the Indian companies. Later, Mr. Richards told reporters that his company could supply eight to ten light water reactors of 1000 to 1600 MW.

Two designs

He said that GE had two designs for reactors — an updated version of the Tarapur reactors, which are supplied to Taiwan and Japan and an altogether new design.

"But there are a number of issues between the two countries," he said, "which needed to be resolved for any concrete deal to take place."

Mr. David Sloan, business development director of Nukem that supplies enriched uranium of Australian and South African origin, said that the U.S. did entire nuclear fuel cycle and it depended on the buyer what he needed. His company is looking forward to supplying nuclear fuel services including refuelling and management of spent fuel.

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