VIENNA, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - India is ready to cooperate with Russia not only on completing the Kudankulam nuclear power plant but on the construction of a new station, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Monday.
Speaking on the sidelines of the 53rd IAEA General Conference in Vienna, spokesman Sergei Novikov said that Anil Kakodkar, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India, confirmed India's readiness for further cooperation at his meeting with Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko.
Novikov said the Indian official "has confirmed India's prinicipal stance to expand cooperation with Russia in the construction of a nuclear power plant on a new site."
Last December, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh adopted a joint declaration confirming their countries' intentions to continue cooperation on the Kudankulam project in the southern province of Tamil Nadu, and to build more nuclear plants across India.
Atomstroyexport, Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, has been building two reactors for the Kudankulam plant since 2002 in line with a 1988 deal between India and the Soviet Union and an addendum signed 10 years later.
