French President Emmanuel Macron and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi have agreed a Declaration of Intent for establishing a partnership on advanced modular reactors and small modular reactors after talks in France. They also visited the multinational ITER nuclear fusion project.
As well as the declaration of intent, the two renewed a memorandum of understanding between India’s Department of Atomic Energy and the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives of France (CEA) covering cooperation with the Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership, which is in Haryana state in India and which aims “to promote international collaboration in nuclear energy research and development, and capacity-building”. It also covers cooperation with the Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology in France.
A joint statement issued after their talks said the two leaders “stressed that nuclear energy is an essential part of the energy mix for strengthening energy security and transitioning towards a low-carbon economy. Both leaders acknowledged the India-France civil nuclear ties and efforts in cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, notably in relation with the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant Project. They welcomed the first meeting of the Special Task Force on Civil Nuclear Energy, and welcomed the signing of a letter of intent on Small Modular Reactor (SMR) and Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) and the Implementing Agreement between India’s GCNEP, DAE and France’s INSTN, CEA for cooperation in training and education of nuclear professionals”.
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