The Électricité de France is now likely to move fast to secure clearance of India’s nuclear watchdog for the design of the European Pressurized Reactor, as six such reactors are likely to be installed at the proposed nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande setting a timeline to start construction of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant; the EDF and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) are also likely to speed up negotiations for the techno-commercial agreements for the six reactors.
“The goal in the next few months is to continue with the work initiated by Areva and NPCIL in April 2015 to secure certification for the EPR reactor in India from the Indian safety authorities and finalise the economic and financial conditions and the technical specifications of the project, supervised by the Indian atomic organization DAE (Department of Atomic Energy),” the EDF, which is mostly owned by the French government, said in a statement.
French energy major Areva and NPCIL signed a pre-engineering agreement for the power plant at Jaitapur during Modi’s visit to Paris in April last year.
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