MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) —Next week nuclear scientists from Russia and India will hold extensive consultations on the ongoing cooperation in the field of nuclear energy and the prospects for partnership in this area, the department of communications of the state corporation Rosatom said Thursday.
Issues related to these consultations, were discussed on Wednesday by the Deputy Director General of Rosatom Nikolai Spassky and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to the Russian Federation Pundi Raghavan.
The first unit of India's Kudankulam power plant is currently operating in India, with the second unit scheduled to be launched in November. Earlier in April, the two countries signed an agreement on the construction of the third and fourth energy blocks of the plant.
The Kudankulam power plant is being constructed in technical cooperation with Russia in accordance with an inter-governmental agreement made in 1988. The project has been ordered, and the plant coordinated, by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India. The agreement to construct the first and second units using VVER-1000 reactors with an electric capacity of 1,000 megawatts each is being implemented by the NECAEP (Atomstroexport) from the Russian side and the NPCIL from the Indian side.
